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Articles by Ashley Archibald

Supporters of Black Education Now gathered at Rainier Beach Community Center to hear about the campaign to reform Seattle Public Schools.

Rally demands public education changes

by Ashley Archibald | August 5th, 2020

It was sunny and hot the afternoon of July 31, the kind of weather that Seattleites wait all year for but the coronavirus has largely ruined. That didn’t stop more than 100 people from gathering in the plaza of the Rainier Beach Community Center — masked...

Benefits gap

by Ashley Archibald | August 5th, 2020

Congress allowed a supplemented unemployment benefit to expire at the end of July, taking $600 per week out of the pockets of jobless Americans struggling to find work in the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. The enhanced unemployment...

Fights heat up in budget exchanges over funds for COVID and police

by Ashley Archibald | August 5th, 2020

Promises to defund the Seattle Police Department (SPD) by half and provide coronavirus relief to households in need may be temporarily scuppered in a dynamic period of negotiations as the City Council was forced to contend with the limits of its own...

Weekend weary

by Ashley Archibald | July 29th, 2020

Weekend protests turned violent on July 25 and 26 as demonstrators clashed with police on Seattle streets in what police would dub a riot. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) reported in the afternoon of July 26 that 57 officers had been injured and 47...

Read more in the July 29 - Aug. 4, 2020 issue.

Construction work continues on the parking garage for the King County Juvenile Court Youth Services Center in Seattle’s Central District.

After years of pushing, County backtracks on jails

by Ashley Archibald | July 29th, 2020

King County Executive Dow Constantine announced his intent to close the county’s adult and youth detention facilities, a win for community advocates who have been fighting the carceral system and pushing for alternatives to incarceration. The county reduced...

Read more in the July 29 - Aug. 4, 2020 issue.

A customer goes shopping at QueenCare on a sunny Wednesday afternoon amid Seattle’s Columbia City Farmers Market. The shop’s owner is promoting self-care, especially for Black people, in a difficult time.

South Seattle shop denied CARES loan fosters anti-stress expertise

by Ashley Archibald | July 22nd, 2020

The line to enter the Columbia City Farmers Market stretched down 35th Avenue South, curving down Ferdinand Street, shoppers standing the designated 6 feet apart in the shade of the trees of the shuttered Interagency Academy. Vendors stacked fresh...

Read more in the July 22-28, 2020 issue.

Protesters consistently call for changes to the Seattle police force as councilmembers grapple with how to reshape the department.

Protesters define demands as City Council struggles to reform Seattle Police Dept.

by Ashley Archibald | July 22nd, 2020

When protesters took over a section of Capitol Hill later called the CHOP, or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, they had demands. An amorphous accumulation of people with different experiences, backgrounds and goals, not all of those demands were considered “...

Read more in the July 22-28, 2020 issue.

Primary objective

by Ashley Archibald | July 22nd, 2020

Local elections offices began mailing ballots to Washington voters in mid-July for the Aug. 4 primary, and while some state systems are creaking under the weight of increased absentee ballots, King County officials say that their advice to make sure your...

Read more in the July 22-28, 2020 issue.

Julio Maldonado put himself through university working three jobs. The software engineer returned to Texas to flee the virus, but the state has became one of the hardest hit areas in the country. He used his skills to launch www.rgvcovid19cases.com

DACA recipients and supporters continue to plead for at least a path to citizenship

by Ashley Archibald | July 15th, 2020

When the first cases of the coronavirus began appearing in Washington state, Julio Maldonado decided it was time to get out. He boarded a plane, feeling anxious around fellow passengers who were coughing, and flew to his family’s home in south Texas, not...

Read more in the July 15-21, 2020 issue.

Cut down to size

by Ashley Archibald | July 15th, 2020

Seven members of the Seattle City Council have committed to severe cuts in the police department’s budget — a move that the Mayor’s Office says would mean abolishing the department altogether. Councilmembers Lisa Herbold, Andrew Lewis and Dan Strauss joined...

Read more in the July 15-21, 2020 issue.