Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian By Alex Su and Alexa Villatoro The consequences of COVID-19 continue to show no mercy to the domestic and global economy. As of April 2020, the unemployment rate reached 14.7% in the U.S, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Shocking declines in the U.S. economy promise dramatic state budget reductions for the 2020-2021…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian While the world seems to be ending as we know it, Seattle Central’s academic routine has also been thrown for a loop. With COVID-19 sweeping the city, SCC had to make some very big decisions very quickly. All classes have been moved to online platforms if possible, and there is still widespread confusion about what…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian 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 between hurricanes, oil and chemical…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian 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 social distancing measures are essential…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian Continuing Education classes on the Seattle Central Campus will finish out this week despite moving to mandatory on-line modalities for credited classes. Seattle Central offers a wide array of non-credit classes designed for working and older students. The classes are paid in full by the students and do not qualify for financial aid. The classes…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian The first death in the United States from the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 occured on February 29, 2020, at EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland, the Eastside suburb of Seattle. The victim was a Washington state man in his 50s who purportedly suffered from underlying health conditions. Since then, The New York Times has crowned Seattle…