My community coordinator called me into his office, and he said, “You will need to tell the patron not to write his name in Chinese characters, on our sign-in sheet!” I felt confused and upset. Inside, I was steaming, and thought, “Aren’t you Chinese, can’t you read the characters? Go tell that to the customer […]
LETTER: Reader lambasts Bruce Harrell
I was amused to see your headline “Seattle’s First Asian Mayor” referring to Bruce Harrell’s thankfully, all too brief role as interim mayor of Seattle. In your haste to embrace an Asian as mayor, you should know Harrell is actually bi-racial — he is part Japanese and part Black. Secondly, to my knowledge, Harrell has […]
LETTER: Response to “Tax to Target Asians?” article
What a provocative title! It certainly demands the attention of all fair minded people of Asian descent or not. But the article (without byline and therefore free of accountability to an individual) fails to note a significant fact: developers love price inflation. Could it be that Jenny Durkan, in her voiced opposition to Cary Moon’s […]
LETTER: Asian Weekly an easy read for English language learners
I read recently [Assunta Ng’s] article “Want to visit Buckingham Palace?” in the Northwest Asian Weekly. I found it very interesting for two reasons. Its content gives an important glimpse of the customs and traditions of one of the oldest monarchies in the world, and it is so beautifully and smoothly written that when I […]
LETTER: Open letters on ethnicity data
Last week, Asian Counseling and Referral Service joined the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, 77 organizations, 180 community leaders, 105 students, and nearly 500 educators nationwide, in reaffirming our commitment to serve the needs of our very diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. We are deeply troubled by recent opposition expressed to the […]
LETTER: Our tax system actually penalizes the poor
Note: This is a response to a commentary that ran in the July 15 issue of our paper, “It’s a crime to be rich,” by Ruth Bayang, which opposed a Seattle City Council 2.25 percent income tax for individuals making over $250,000. To the Editor: Because there is no state income tax, here’s the breakdown […]
LETTER: Navigation Center detrimental to ID, City not listening
Note: This letter is an edited version of an email sent to Seattle City Council To the Editor: The Navigation Center in Little Saigon being a “done deal” make us very upset. It involves two ethnic communities and is close to Chinatown ID area. Our community is highly populated and busy with businesses. We’ve got […]
LETTER: No, it’s not a crime to be rich
Note: This is an edited version of an email response to a commentary that ran in the July 15 issue of our paper, “It’s a crime to be rich,” by Ruth Bayang, which opposed a Seattle City Council 2.25 percent income tax for individuals making over $250,000. To the Editor — No, it’s not a […]
With Navigation Center, City of Seattle not doing enough to engage community
To the Editor, The City has finally opened its Navigation Center in the Little Saigon area of the International District (ID) — on its own terms and without having sought sincere input and engagement with the community [in regards to] where it will be situated. This experiment in unsheltered services will affect all of us, […]
LETTER: Terminology matters, we need to eliminate use of word ‘foreign’ when referring to non-English languages
To the editor: “Tagalog is WA’s most commonly spoken foreign language after Spanish,” [an article that appeared in the July 15 issue of Northwest Asian Weekly,] is well-developed and written. My educator hat is reeling, however, with the combination of “foreign” and “language” in the headline and throughout the article. At least 30 years ago, […]
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