Sean and Catherine Lowe flew into town from Dallas last month to get Catherine’s grandmother’s blessing of their new baby, Samuel Thomas Lowe, born on July 2. The family enjoyed […]
First Filipina UW student body president
Daniele Meñez is the newly elected president of Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW). Meñez was born in Saipan and lived in the Philippines until her family decided […]
Feds targeted adoptee from South Korea because of crimes
By Andrew Selsky Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man who was adopted as a 3-year-old from South Korea almost four decades ago and flown to America is in […]
China pledges 18-percent carbon emissions cut by 2020
BEIJING (AP) — China’s cabinet issued a new climate plan targeting an 18-percent cut in carbon emissions by 2020 compared to 2015 levels, the same day that the Paris Agreement […]
Other Indian cities join Delhi in air pollution emergency
By Biswajeet Banerjee Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The sickening air pollution that led the Indian capital to shut schools and construction sites this week has prompted similar measures […]
Scandal unites rival Koreas in fury at South Korea’s leader
By Foster Klug Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In only a few days, South Korea’s biggest scandal in years has done what six decades of diplomacy and bloodshed […]
The Tacoma Method and the Chinese reconciliation effort
“Of Race and Reconciliation,” an hour-long documentary produced by Tacoma’s KBTC television station and currently available on the station’s website, comes well-directed, well-assembled, well-written, and well-polished.
Local ostomy model Saleem Juma works to demystify disability
Saleem Juma walks into the disability office on campus and hands the girl at the counter a set of forms.
Nurturing a greater humanity
Life in public service as the director of a nonprofit was not something that Dorothy Wong dreamed of.
The Layup Drill — UW Hall of Fame news and the glass ceiling in Major League Baseball
Welcome to another edition of The Layup Drill. In this month’s edition, we take a look at a Husky Hall of Famer, Kim Ng is passed up once again, and a U.S. basketball team plays in Japan.