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 […]
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 who did it. Further, I never give up on a home that bridges the homeless community. Those of us who have found safety can be […]
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 to say hello and stopped short when I saw the door all decorated and learned of what befell Mr. Chin. Everybody knew Mr. Chin. I’m […]
Letter in support of Asian American Studies at UW
The Washington State Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs and numerous Asian Pacific American community leaders from across the state sent the letter below to University of Washington (UW) President Cauce regarding their concern for the future of the Asian American Studies program at the UW. President Ana Mari Cauce University of Washington Office of […]
Reader angry over publishing of crowdsourced open letter about Black Lives Matter
Dear Editor, We need to talk. Your inflammatory anti-police hysteria has gone too far. The July 16 article, “Dear Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie: Black Lives Matter to us, too,” stated that, “Last week in Louisiana, two white police officers killed a Black man named Alton Sterling, while he sold CD’s on the street.” Such a […]
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