Dear Editor, More than 15 million Americans provide unpaid care for people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. This means that in 2016, these caregivers provided an estimated 18.2 billion hours of care valued at over $230 billion. While this is done out of love, compassion, and a sense of family duty, caregiving can be emotionally, […]
LETTER: Reader reacts to SCV reunion story
I was thrilled to learn that there was a reunion of the great folks who produced the KRAB-FM Seattle Chinese Voice. I only wished I had known they were going to have such an event — I would have loved to crash their party, especially to see Cecilia Fung. The program started way before I […]
LETTER: An open letter to the U.S. Supreme Court
Dear Justices, When I became an American citizen, it was because I believed in the values that the United States represents: freedom, opportunity, and equality. As a girl growing up in India, my family gave me whatever they could. However, in order to thrive and live a life with those basic rights, I moved halfway […]
LETTER: Summit gives thanks to the Chinatown-International District
Dear Editor, For more than two years, Summit Sierra (Washington’s first charter public high school) has had the privilege of calling the Chinatown-International District (CID) home. The community has made our students, families, and faculty feel welcome, as we provide this public school option to Seattle. Just as the community has welcomed us with open […]
LETTER: Thank you letter from BIJAC
To the Editor, On behalf of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community (BIJAC), we are humbled and grateful for the overwhelming, heartfelt support and participation on March 30 honoring the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of the first Japanese Americans to be forcibly removed and exiled during WWII. This chapter in American history began on Bainbridge Island, […]
LETTER: Federal funding for Alzheimer’s disease
Dear Editor, At a cost of $236 billion a year, Alzheimer’s is the most expensive disease in the nation. Nearly one in every five Medicare dollars is spent on people with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. And total costs will only continue to increase as baby boomers age, soaring to more than $1 trillion […]
Open letter to Central Washington University
Dear Central Washington University Theatre Department, In this current cultural and political climate, it is incredibly important to cultivate an inclusive and diverse environment. Central Washington University (CWU)’s theatre department claims to publicly support inclusivity and diversity. However, the theatre department’s actions still align with the same racist figures they try to separate from. Historically, […]
Open letter to Mayor Murray and the City Council
The Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA) is very disappointed with the City of Seattle’s lack of communication regarding the Navigation Center. As a leading organization representing the best interest of the Chinatown-International District neighborhood, the CIDBIA should have been informed by the City prior to the decision to place the Navigation Center in the […]
Letter to Editor about proposed Navigation Center in Little Saigon
Dear Editor, I don’t object to improving opportunity shelter for the unsheltered as with Mayor Ed Murray’s proposed Navigation Center on 12th Avenue South. I do challenge the location because the City twice now has allowed the International District (ID)/Chinatown to be the default location for the City’s homeless population. Last summer, social services, business […]
Vote yes on Initiative 735
When my grandparents came to this country from China, they came for the dream of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. They knew there were more opportunities here for them, their children, and their grandchildren. But we now have a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for […]
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