Are you aware of the hit American democracy has taken? On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled in “Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee” that two racially discriminatory Arizona voting laws do not violate the Voting Rights Act or the Constitution, overturning a Ninth Circuit ruling. Arizona has been ground zero for former President Donald Trump’s […]
Keeping the CID clean
The City of Seattle is stepping up efforts to keep the Chinatown-International District clean. Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has extended its litter abatement service to cover 5th Avenue to 8th Avenue from Jackson to Weller Streets (both block side faces, except 5th Ave Bus Station side), and includes King Street. The route will occur one […]
SAAM reopening
“Reimagined. Reinstalled. Reopening at last.” That’s what the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) website states. SAAM is set to reopen to the public on May 28. The restoration of the historic Art Deco building, improvements to critical systems, expanded gallery and education spaces, and a new park lobby that connects the museum to the surrounding […]
Boeing donates to local AAPI organizations
In observance of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, Boeing announced a $1.1 million investment package to help fund AAPI support organizations. In the Puget Sound region, that includes five grants totaling $350,000 to support Neighborhood House ($100,000), Tacoma Community House ($90,000), One America ($75,000), Asian Counseling & Referral Services ($75,000), and Asian […]
Alexandra Huynh, 18, is the new National Youth Poet Laureate
NEW YORK (AP) — An incoming first-year student at Stanford University has been named the new National Youth Poet Laureate. Alexandra Huynh, 18, is a second-generation Vietnamese American from Sacramento, California, who sees poetry both as a means to self-expression and social justice. “I spend a lot of time in my head, so poetry is […]
Police arrest man who stole purses, bags from Asian women
Police arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of stealing purses and bags from more than a dozen women in the Chinatown-International District, Rainier Valley, and Beacon Hill. Over the last six weeks, the man approached his victims—primarily Asian women, from 40 to 80 years old—near their vehicles, outside Seattle grocery stores, and grabbed their bags before […]
Steve Fortney drops out of City Attorney race
Steve Fortney, who announced in April that he is running for Seattle City Attorney, withdrew from the race earlier this month. “After much reflection and conversations with my family, I concluded that now is not the best time to juggle work and family while also waging a huge, citywide campaign. The timing did not work […]
Police arrest two felons in stolen car with drugs, gun in ID
Seattle police arrested two felons in a stolen car with drugs and a gun in the Chinatown-International District (ID) on May 3. Officers spotted a stolen car around 11:45 p.m in the 800 block of South King Street. Inside the gold Lexus RX-3 were a 31-year-old man and 33-year-old man. Officers found crack cocaine and […]
Remembering Fred Shiosaki
By Mahlon Meyer Northwest Asian Weekly During summers after the war, when he had stopped having nightmares, Fred Shiosaki would take his two children fishing. He rowed them all over lakes in Eastern Washington, hoping they would pick up his hobby. In the end, however, it was he who picked up something from them. His […]
Micronesians feel hatred in Hawaii, decry police shooting
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Comments on social media about a 16-year-old boy shot and killed by Honolulu police have been so hateful that a Catholic priest, who hails from the same small Pacific island as the teen’s family, hesitates to repeat them. “It is really bad and I don’t want […]
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