Small, family-owned restaurants, for example, have had to weather the impacts of the pandemic only to see higher labor costs and now increases in food prices.
Eddie Lin, Erika Evans, Dionne Foster and Alexis Mercedes Rinck were among the candidates whose campaigns were boosted by the progressive Working Families Party.
At Estelita's Library, Toasted, the Asian Counseling and Referral Service and other community hubs, folks provided for each other as government food aid lapsed, Naomi Ishisaka writes.
"Baseball Saved Us" was a surprise best-seller about a Japanese American boy incarcerated during WWII. Now, it's one of the most-challenged books in the U.S, Naomi Ishisaka writes.
Could home sharing help with high housing costs and homelessness in the Seattle area? Columnist Naomi Ishisaka looks at regional approaches that might help.
According to a UW report, the number of e-scooter-related medical encounters in Seattle increased from nine between 2018-20 to 273 between 2021-23, writes Naomi Ishisaka.
The national Asian American Journalists Association convention will be in Seattle, July 30-Aug. 3. Around 1,300 journalists are expected to take part, Naomi Ishisaka writes.
More Native Hawaiians now live in the continental U.S. than in Hawai‘i, with Washington having the second highest continental population behind California Naomi Ishisaka writes.