Thursday midday, Elisabeth Eaves, award-winning journalist and New York Times notable author, edits a story about North Korea for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists while her partner Joe Ray, 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year and contributing writer for Wired magazine, prepares for a trade show in Chicago. The final draft of author Tara Conklin’s second novel, The Last Romantics is shaping-up too in a hidden writer’s room where spoken words are few.Continue reading Type Set Offers a Quiet Hideaway for Serious Writers→
As this region continues to experience an economic boom, many of us are wondering when this economic prosperity will broaden to include all of Seattle’s diverse communities.
The Netflix series On My Block teaches many lessons our society should learn from
by Lora-Ellen McKinney
Episode One: In the first five minutes of the first episode of the Netflix Original Series coming-of-age dramedy On My Block, four friends—all incredibly smart, witty, and eloquent high school students of color—use their big brains in an unexpected way. They have been spying on an older kid’s party in a Los Angeles neighborhood when gunfire breaks out.Continue reading Hope at the End of a Gun→
Wednesday afternoon inside Rainier Valley’s King Donuts, two well-dressed women sorted flyers in nine different languages into neat piles on a table. Their intended audience, riders of Route 7 in Rainier Valley never showed up.Continue reading Rapid Ride Coming to Route 7 in Rainier Valley→
In honor of Women’s History Month, we will present essays throughout the month by local authors documenting, honoring and celebrating powerful women who inspire us in South Seattle and beyond.
Women’s leadership in challenging injustice was front and center at Radical Women’s celebration of International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 11. Moving and powerful speakers from different races and backgrounds, working on a range of issues, expressed how life challenges propelled them into the forefront. In that process, they are finding community, confidence, and allies.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we will present essays throughout the month by local authors documenting, honoring and celebrating powerful women who inspire us in South Seattle and beyond.
“Things work best when we center the work around those we are here to serve rather than centering ourselves. As I think of it, I see the children. I feel them in the center. I feel their families in that center. Their communities are in that center and we are doing what we can do to lift up and support them.”Continue reading Revolutionary Woman: Dr. Laura Lynn→
After years of experimenting, King County elections officials are getting serious about a key barrier
by Hanna Brooks Olsen
Though voters in some Washington State counties have been mailing in their ballots for more than a decade, it was just seven years ago that the law of the land finally did away with polling places. Old-timers will complain that sitting at your kitchen table, rather than waiting in line in a school gym, just isn’t the same—but the data makes it clear that the handful of states to have made the switch to a completely absentee system enjoy safer, more secure, and more accurate elections.Continue reading Why Prepaid Postage is a Very Big Deal→
Youth/Literary:Teen Book Club Details: “Meet other avid readers and discuss your favorite books! We do not assign the books you read, each teen gets to choose a book they are excited about to bring to each meeting. Talk about what we liked and absolutely did not like about our choices. Every book club member will win a free book to keep, and one lucky member will leave the meeting with a book autographed by the author! Meets the last Friday of every month.” Time: 4–5 PM Where: Skyway Library—12601 76th Ave S. Cost: FREE More Info:https://mywesthill.org/event/teen-book-club-2/
