The coronavirus outbreak is everywhere. It’s the drunken party guest on the global stage nobody wanted; vomiting on the furniture, smashing the glass coffee table of the global economy, ruining our personal lives, and smearing its grubby little hands on everything from local mom-and-pop businesses like barber shops and bakeries…
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We’re all burned out on Coronavirus. COVID-19, the ‘Rona, or whatever you want to call it has been hitting us from every side lately. Every news story, video social event, junk email, social media meme and shopping list since the week of March 5 have all had the same subject…
*Please Sir, can we have some more… Oh Steve Mnuchin, your name makes you sound like a bond villain but your glasses make us think you were terribly bullied in your ivy league prep school in NYC. And apparently you have not personally paid for anything since 1985. In a…
It’s become a running joke among me and my fellow disabled students of Seattle Central: how hilariously, glaringly bad the location of the Disability Service Office is. It seems to perfectly sum up how inadequately our school provides for its disabled students, and how far it has to go. When…
Opinion: International students are concerned about their tuition
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian
Lena Mercer | The Seattle CollegianAs a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, Governor Inslee announced that colleges and universities would transition to online operations starting from April 13th through May 4th, 2020. However at that time, Seattle Colleges (North, Central, and South campuses) noted that “students, faculty, and staff should prepare for online and alternative…
In June of 2018, I retired from 22 years of active duty military service with the U.S. Coast Guard. My last assignment was a four-year position with a four-person disaster response unit that kept me on the road or in the air for 200 days of the year as I traveled…
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve seen some of the best and worst of humanity. People coming together to deliver groceries for free and offer each other supplies and kind words, neighbors shouting from balconies to stay strong and breaking out into spontaneous song and bingo games. There…
It’s a difficult world for the faint of heart, for the indecisive, for the misguided, for those who have experienced traumas of relative, substantial proportions. I satisfy all of these criteria, as many of us do. What makes the journey all the more difficult, and perhaps paradoxically so, is my…
Dear Governor Inslee, We are deeply concerned by the dangers the COVID-19 pandemic creates for our incarcerated population in Washington. We have already seen COVID-19s devastating impact on the residents at LifeCare. Our nursing homes house many of our older and often medically fragile community members and we recognize that…
There is more than one germ to cause a panic… If you hadn’t heard, there is a possible infectious disease outbreak in the Pacific Northwest. Mainly affecting your respiratory system, this bacteria has been known to spread quickly and kill many. I am talking about Tuberculosis, obviously, and thanks to…
