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6 days ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Brett Hamil
DOOM LOOP is a serialized fictional cartoon from South End author and comic Brett Hamil. Check in every Sunday for a new installment!You can now buy the latest DOOM LOOP collection, "Hostile Workplace," featuring all the cartoons from 2024, at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com. Follow Hamil on Instagram at @bretthamilcomix.
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1 week ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig
"Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in Philadelphia" is one of three films screening tonight at the opening of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. As immigrant communities across the country are under increased threats of ICE raids and deportations, there has been a strong show of resistance and defiance through protesting and legal action.
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1 week ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
Council Punts on Algorithmic Rent-Fixing BillInstead of voting during their June 17 meeting to pass Councilmember Cathy Moore's slam-dunk bill banning algorithmic rent-fixing software, the council opted to delay the vote by a week. Councilmember Maritza Rivera abstained, while Moore and Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth voted "no" on the motion to delay, with the six remaining councilmembers voting "yes."Why are they not voting on this extremely obvious piece of legislation? A few reasons.
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1 week ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Maya Tizon
New data shows a "massive surge" of eviction notices in the state of Washington since the 2020 pandemic, experts say. King County is no exception. In 2024, King County landlords , or evictions, according to data provided by the Office of Civic Legal Aid (OCLA) — the highest record in state history. Advocates pointed to increasingly higher rents, more expensive fees, and wage inequality. In the South End, over half of the district's tenants struggled to meet their rent.
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1 week ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Brett Hamil
DOOM LOOP is a serialized fictional cartoon from South End author and comic Brett Hamil. Check in every Sunday for a new installment!You can now buy the latest DOOM LOOP collection, "Hostile Workplace," featuring all the cartoons from 2024, at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com. Follow Hamil on Instagram at @bretthamilcomix.
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2 weeks ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
Federal Building BattlezoneIf you haven't had your head under a rock — not that anyone could blame you for wanting to put it there — you are surely aware that our sitting president deployed military troops to Los Angeles to break up a constitutionally protected protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) gestapo-style immigration arrests. While our homegrown anti-ICE protests haven't prompted President Donald Trump to send Marines to Seattle, it's not for lack of trying.
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2 weeks ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig
Updated on June 18, 2025, 2:45 p.m.As we make our way to the summer solstice, we must first celebrate Juneteenth, a Black American holiday celebrating the end of chattel slavery in the United States. Here's what I wrote about the day — June 19 — in previous years' event roundups:"Every year, Black communities celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Texas finally got word of their emancipation.
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2 weeks ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Brett Hamil
DOOM LOOP is a serialized fictional cartoon from South End author and comic Brett Hamil. Check in every Sunday for a new installment!You can now buy the latest DOOM LOOP collection, "Hostile Workplace," featuring all the cartoons from 2024, at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com. Follow Hamil on Instagram at @bretthamilcomix.
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3 weeks ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
On June 2, District 5 Councilmember Cathy Moore called it quits, writing in a surprise announcement that she would be resigning in July "due to some recent health challenges."This brings the City Council's resignation count to three in less than two years, after former District 8 Councilmember Teresa Mosquera won the 2023 election to the King County Council and former District 2 Councilmember Tammy Morales resigned, citing a toxic work environment.
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3 weeks ago | 
southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig
As the days turn warmer and longer, the Central District transforms into a grassy, verdant oasis in the middle of Seattle. Irises and California poppies beam out at you along quiet, hilly side streets, and sometimes when the air hits just right, you can smell the salty Puget Sound. June is truly the perfect time to go on a long afternoon walk through the neighborhood to see the old houses and notice gardens, parks, and dead ends that have perhaps gone unremembered during the coldness of winter.