By Sharon Tomiko Santos For Northwest Asian Weekly May 16 Steven Hill Chair, Board of Trustees Seattle Community College District 1500 Harvard Avenue Seattle, WA 98122 Dear Mr. Hill, I write to express my bitter disappointment in the decision of the Seattle Community College District Board of Trustees to pass over a highly qualified native […]
Housing crisis — help available for API seniors
By John Wilson King County Assessor The housing crisis in King County does not discriminate when it comes to affordability. Old or young, far too many of our neighbors struggle to pay the rent or to cover the costs of staying in their home. Asian and Pacific Islander communities — 20 percent of King […]
Chinatown-International District safety concerns
Dear Editor, I am writing in response and in solidarity with the many cosigners of a letter to Mayor Ed Murray in the April 30-May 6 issue of Northwest Asian Weekly. The cosigners urged the mayor to pay attention to a severe public safety and public health issue in the Chinatown ID: that of illegal […]
Letter to Seattle’s mayor about public safety concerns in Chinatown-International District
Dear Mayor Murray, The International District Chinatown is the oldest existing ethnic neighborhood left in Seattle. Working with property owners, business owners, district employees, and most importantly, neighborhood residents, our community service agencies have worked to keep the Chinatown-International District (C-ID) a vibrant and safe neighborhood for all. Several new housing developments are scheduled to […]
A reader’s letter of appreciation
Dear Editor, I was reading [Assunta Ng’s] blog, “How do you define success?” (March 11) [and wanted to let you know] I truly enjoyed it — it really hit home. I believe that too much pressure is placed on people and that we, in America, have become greedy. I have at times believed that excess […]
Publisher’s friend responds to blog
I’m the young Asian friend who was the subject of Assunta Ng’s blog post in last week’s issue, and I thought I would provide a response on searching for the right balance when dealing with money. First, even though I have worked at a financial institution for five years, no matter how frugally I lived, […]
JACL demands APIs in top SPD ranks
FROM JACL PRESIDENT: To the Honorable Mayor Ed Murray, the Honorable Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole, and the Honorable Seattle City Councilmembers: The Seattle Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the nation’s oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization, is deeply alarmed by the lack of Asian Pacific Islander (API) representation in the […]
Donnie Chin’s family on park renaming
Dear community members, We would like to thank you all for your tremendous support over the past months since Donnie’s passing. We appreciate the many efforts that have gone into remembering our brother and his lifetime of work for the community. We are writing to formally state our family’s position on the renaming of the […]
LETTER: Stereotypes during Oscars hardly reflect Asian Americans
Dear Northwest Asian Weekly, I read your editorial [last week] regarding the Oscar joke portraying kids as Asian accountants [at PricewaterhouseCoopers]. I did work at PricewaterhouseCoopers. When I started with the firm a while ago, there were only two Asians, including me, in the Seattle office of more than 100 staffs. I was hardly smarter […]
LETTER: Rally for Liang in Seattle should just be the start
To Northwest Asian Weekly: The rally for NYC police officer Peter Liang is a milestone for Chinese Americans in awakening to the importance of political activism. It was a great turnout demonstrating their support for social justice for all, including Officer Liang and Mr. Gurley, both victims of the tragic and unfortunate events leading to […]
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