By David Crary The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese immigrant who fled her native country when she was 8 was named on Sept. 12 as Planned Parenthood’s […]
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LETTER: May 5 debate
Dear Editor, “A foolish consistency,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, “is a hobgoblin of little minds,” a quote I personally have little use for, but today. While it is certainly not […]
LETTER: Reader gives input on SPD diversity dispute
Dear Editor, I wish that Mr. Irigon had gotten his wish to have appointed an Asian Pacific Islander to Seattle Police Command, but I am not persuaded that Chief Kathleen […]
Northwest Asian Weekly’s 35th anniversary: Let’s hear it from our readers
The only weekly English-edition newspaper serving the Asian community in the state of Washington for 35 years. “Editor, publisher, founder, fundraiser, mother, wife, daughter, mentor and friend. I am […]
Fool’s Destiny (an eclipse) in stanza prose
Editor’s note: This poem was sent to us by one of our readers, commemorating the solar eclipse that occurred Aug. 21. By Mac Crary SPECIAL TO NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Sky […]
Reader responds to blog about homeless camps in ID
Editor’s note: This is in regards to our publisher’s blog last week titled, “How Chinatown battles homeless encampments.” Although street crime has repeatedly victimized me, it was not the homeless […]
A letter, and a plea, about Donnie Chin
[On Aug. 8], I managed a visit to beloved Chinatown after several years in a Pittsburgh college. I came by train. I went by the antique shop in Canton Alley […]
LETTER: 12-year resident bids farewell
Dear Editor, My grandmother used to always say, “Remember the good; forget the bad.” I thought of this in tears on the train coming home to Pittsburgh after 12 years […]
LETTER: Keep safety in mind during festivities
To the Editor: [Last month,] there were firecrackers and dragon dances at a ceremony on Maynard. When the firecrackers malfunctioned just a little, a middle-aged man stood too close … […]
LETTER: Commentary about Korean unification isn’t realistic
To the Editor: Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia’s commentary (Jan. 7, 2012) regarding stereotypes harbored by South Koreans toward North Korean refugees among them, and the way that these stereotypes harm […]