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LETTER: 12-year resident bids farewell
Dear Editor, My grandmother used to always say, “Remember the good; forget the bad.” I thought of this in tears on the train coming home to Pittsburgh after 12 years […]
LETTER: Keep safety in mind during festivities
To the Editor: [Last month,] there were firecrackers and dragon dances at a ceremony on Maynard. When the firecrackers malfunctioned just a little, a middle-aged man stood too close … […]
LETTER: Commentary about Korean unification isn’t realistic
To the Editor: Dr. Vernasius T. Tandia’s commentary (Jan. 7, 2012) regarding stereotypes harbored by South Koreans toward North Korean refugees among them, and the way that these stereotypes harm […]
Letter: Recognizing Vietnamese Heritage and Freedom Flag is divisive
Mayor Mike McGinn’s decision to recognize the Vietnamese Heritage and Freedom Flag is an act of signal divisiveness masquerading as a public relations overture
Letter: Architectural revivalism is what Chinatown needs
I saw a Chinatown business fail once. First, they moved into an open air structure, exposing their elderly workers to the cold, and then they closed.
Letter: Not criminal to call someone communist
[In the Dec. 26, 2009–Jan. 1, 2010] issue, I read about the man who sued for being called a communist and it bothers me because the communist party is usually a law-abiding political party, and it is not a criminal attack to call someone a communist.
Letter: Dogmatic letter misleads
First of all, his letter holds forth from the vantage point of two illusions: If whites had never colonized invaded, raped, enslaved, and abused Africa, it would be paradise — and the idea that if Blacks were given jobs, fair schools, if the [government] kept crack out of the neighborhoods, American cities would be paradises.
“Hammer Man” surrenders to SWAT team
A man has surrendered to members of the Seattle Police SWAT team after a nine-hour standoff.
LETTER: Is it possible to have genuine empathy?
What moved me to write a letter to your newspaper, as I read about the experience of Thavisouk “Thavi” Phrasavath in Laos (in issue 12), is because I found I couldn’t bear it …