It’s no secret that housing is a big deal in Seattle. As our region’s grown, so has the magnitude of our county’s homelessness crisis. Will the shiny new apartment towers be balanced out with enough more affordable housing? That feeling of urgency prompted reader J.J. to ask us this question… “Why can’t the City...
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We live in crazy times. Far-right agitators—from white-nationalist leader Richard Spencer to recent pariah Milo Yiannopoulos—have sparked renewed interest in what types of speech are protected. Some on the left find themselves wanting to ban, stifle, or prohibit certain types of speech, especially speech they feel has been weaponized for...
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Three days before Donald Trump's inauguration, political science associate professor Jack Turner was teaching a class on feminist political theory when a visibly upset student raised her hand and asked to be excused. When the student explained she'd seen two neo-Nazi recruitment flyers outside of Raitt Hall, Turner suggested the...
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My fingertips felt tingly as I walked into Lake City's Rage Industry over the weekend. Vases, mugs, terra-cotta pots, candlestick holders, and empty bottles of Tsingtao beer and Charles Shaw wine lined the walls of the unassuming-looking building. On the opposite side of the storefront, a sign reading "Smash me...
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Efforts to repeal an unpopular statewide dance tax have become a battle about statutory language. The dance community dubbed a 1970 state law “the dance tax” though it collects retail sales tax on amusement, recreation and physical fitness services. Included in this spectrum of services are venues that provide “the opportunity...
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Blaming the survivor of a sexual assault leads to revictimization. TOO often, insensitive comments are made about a rape survivor’s experience. Somebody might question whether the attack happened, or ridicule or otherwise bully the victim. Such was the case of Rehtaeh Parsons of Nova Scotia ; Audrie Pott of Saratoga,...
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The Seattle City Council on Monday gave a limited way forward to the city's medical-marijuana dispensaries, which face an uncertain future with the advent of statewide recreational marijuana sales. The City Council gave the medical dispensaries and growers until January 2015 to apply for a state license to do business...
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“I am a product of war and my family is a product of the killing fields,” said Phatry Derek Pan, referring to the sites where thousands of Cambodians were massacred. Pan was born in a refugee camp in Thailand shortly after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, the Cambodian political...
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Ma Myaw and her son William Hu are two of hundreds of refugees from Myanmar who have settled in the Pacific Northwest. (Photo by Ana Sofia Knauf) President Obama is on his way to Burma (aka Myanmar) on Monday for a six hour visit that will be the first by...
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A group of about 50 activists gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma on Tuesday night. From the sidewalk outside the prison’s gates, the demonstrators—wives, children, partners, and strangers—rallied in support of those inside. About 415 detainees at NWDC, mostly undocumented immigrants picked up by Immigration Customs and Enforcement...
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