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EDITORIAL: Carmen Best calls it quits

August 13, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A bombshell in the Seattle political scene—Police Chief Carmen Best has announced her retirement. “The [Seattle City] Council gave us $1.6 million to hire the best, brightest, and most diverse. Now they want me to lay off 100 of those officers. I can’t do that,” Best said during a Aug. 11 news conference. Best’s announcement […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 33 | AUGUST 15 - AUGUST 21

EDITORIAL: An effort to dismiss the undercounted

August 6, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

This week, the U.S. Census Bureau announced it would end its efforts to count the number of people living in the country on Sept. 30, a month earlier than anticipated. The Washington Census Alliance, a coalition of more than 90 Black and Brown-led community organizations across Washington state, condemned the decision—saying the rushed timeline will […]

Filed Under: Editorials, This week's issue Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 32 | AUGUST 8 - AUGUST 14

EDITORIAL: Journey back to our true selves

June 4, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Like many, I watched some of the protests over the weekend with appreciation of living in a country where “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress” is protected under the Constitution.

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 23 | JUNE 6 - JUNE 12

EDITORIAL: Morales, Mosqueda, Sawant seek to sneak in a bill past Chinatown residents

May 20, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Hand picking a few people in the community who will further your agenda?? Really? Seattle City Councilmembers Tammy Morales, Teresa Mosqueda, and Kshama Sawant… are you listening? A Change.org petition against Council Bill (CB) 119796 has garnered close to 2,500 signatures in 48 hours—signed by residents, business owners, visitors, and elders of the Chinatown International-District […]

Filed Under: Editorials, Feature stories Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 21 | MAY 23 - MAY 29

EDITORIAL: Quarantine ≠ incarceration

May 14, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

During discussions on May 5 over the validity of Wisconsin’s ‘safer at home’ plan, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley referred to the order as “tyranny” and compared it to the incarceration of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II. Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) called the comparison “an insult to Japanese Americans who […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 20 | MAY 16 - MAY 22

EDITORIAL: Trump scapegoating immigrants again

April 23, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

President Donald Trump tweeted on April 20, “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration.” He offered no details as to what immigration programs might be affected by the […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 17 | APRIL 25 - MAY 1

EDITORIAL: Stop “fanning hatred”

April 16, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign released an ad on April 9 that accused former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, of being too cozy with China. It featured an image of Biden and former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke on a stage flanked by the U.S. and People’s Republic of China flags. […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 16 | APRIL 18 - APRIL 24

EDITORIAL: The gifts of COVID-19

April 2, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

I know what you’re thinking. How could a virus that has already killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide be a gift? I take no pleasure in the deaths, suffering, and fear that has resulted from this pandemic. Instead, I have witnessed a rise in people coming together for others, and for humanity. In Washington, […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 14 | APRIL 4 - APRIL 10

EDITORIAL: What’s in a name? Should we call it COVID-19 or Wuhan virus?

March 12, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

At a World Health Organization (WHO) media briefing last month, Director-General Tedros Adhanom announced that WHO had a new name for the disease now making headlines worldwide. COVID-19. In his remarks, Adhanom said, “Under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 11 | MARCH 14 - MARCH 20

EDITORIAL: The truth about fake news

March 5, 2020 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A form of news consisting of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional news media or online social media—that’s the definition of fake news by Wikipedia. The way most people use it nowadays, in my observation, defies this definition. In short, people use the phrase “fake news” when it contains information they don’t like or […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2020, VOL 39 NO 10 | MARCH 7 - MARCH 13

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