Venice Buhain

Venice Buhain is an online and print journalist whose work has appeared on TVW News, AOL/Patch, The Olympian and other news organizations. She is also the former Editorial Director at The Seattle Globalist. Venice has covered diversity, education, local news and politics. She also is a past Seattle chapter president of the Asian American Journalists Association.
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Rogue Pan-African makeover sparks new Central District crosswalk design

by Venice Buhain
Central District crosswalks will get an official redesign after an unofficial paint job that honored the neighborhood's African American history.
Aug 7, 2015

Carbon tax revenue should be spent in communities of color, Sightline says

by Venice Buhain
What should happen to the revenue if Washington ever passes a carbon charge on polluters? Sightline Institute suggests communities of color need it most.
The wall of old signs inside of Thompson Signs' warehouse serves as a visual reminder of the mostly white, male political candidates in the northwest. (Photo by Lucas Anderson / UW Election Eye)

Seattle and Yakima could see more diverse city councils after Tuesday’s primary

by Venice Buhain
Leading candidates were more diverse than the current councils after Tuesday's primary, the first after both cities switched to district elections.
Aug 5, 2015

Claudia Castro Luna named as Seattle’s first civic poet

by Venice Buhain
Claudia Castro Luna has masters degrees in poetry and urban planning and is a K-12 certified teacher.
Aug 4, 2015

Crackdown on hookah lounges in wake of Donnie Chin shooting

by Venice Buhain
International District residents say the hookah lounges have made the neighborhood feel unsafe and have rallied against them in recent weeks.
Aug 3, 2015

‘Good Samaritan’ sought in Donnie Chin shooting

by Venice Buhain
Seattle Police are seeking a "well-intentioned" man who picked up bullet casings at the crime scene where International District community leader Donnie Chin was shot and killed on Thursday.
Jul 28, 2015

Donnie Chin remembered at Sunday night vigil

by Venice Buhain
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night to honor the commitment and colorful life of International District leader Donnie Chin.
Jul 27, 2015

International District community leader shot and killed Thursday

by Venice Buhain
Donnie Chin, director of the International District Emergency Center, was fatally shot early Thursday morning in the International District, reports say. Chin had patrolled and monitored the International District for decades, saying that ambulance services were slow to respond to 9-1-1 calls, according to a story in the Seattle Times. He started his patrol decades ago […]
Jul 23, 2015
Another house recently flipped in the Central District after the previous owner went into foreclosure. (Photo by Alex Stonehill)

Seattle mayor proposes Sharia-compliant loans as part of affordable housing plan

by Venice Buhain
Seattle's mayor is encouraging lenders and community leaders to find ways that low- and medium-income Muslims who follow Sharia law can purchase homes.
Jul 22, 2015

‘Waiting for better days’: Seattle’s Greek Americans watch homeland’s turmoil

by Venice Buhain
The financial crisis in Greece has taken years to develop, and it has hit families of Greek Americans in Seattle hard.
Jul 13, 2015
A guard at the Northwest Detention Center, a private facility owned and operated by the GEO Group, on contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo by Alex Stonehill)

Judge OKs forced labor lawsuit against detention center contractor

by Venice Buhain
The lawsuit argues that GEO violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act by allegedly forcing detainees to work for free or be put in isolation.
Jul 9, 2015
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Six-month sentence in Seattle hate crime attack on immigrant cab driver

by Venice Buhain
Jesse Fleming was sentenced to six months in jail on Thursday in connection with a Seattle hate crime against a Somali American cab driver last December.
Jul 2, 2015

New Americans citizenship campaign branches out to Seattle

by Venice Buhain
The New Americans Campaign, which promotes naturalization, announced a Seattle partnership with One America and the Asian Counseling and Referral Service.

Saudi prince pledges $32B to charity, citing inspiration from Gates Foundation

by Venice Buhain
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal announced that he will pledge $32 billion to charity, including women's causes, citing the Gates Foundation as inspiration.
Jul 1, 2015

U.S., Cuba announce embassy plans as relations thaw

by Venice Buhain
In a continuation of the thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, President Barack Obama announced a U.S. Embassy will open in Havana.

Homegrown extremists bigger threat in U.S. than jihadist attacks, says study

by Venice Buhain
Homegrown extremists have killed nearly twice as many people in the United States as self-proclaimed jihadists since 9/11, according to a recent count.
Jun 24, 2015

Mayors urge feds to find solution to Somali remittance crisis

by Venice Buhain
Mayors sign resolution calling for feds to find a way for families to resume sending remittances to Somalia.
Jun 23, 2015

UW teams with ‘MIT of China’ on new tech program in Bellevue

by Venice Buhain
The University of Washington and a top Chinese research university Tsinghua University announced a partnership to open a technology program in Bellevue focusing on innovation.
Jun 19, 2015

Anger, sadness in Seattle after Charleston shooting

by Venice Buhain
Seattle reacted to the news that a white man started shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, SC, killing nine.
Jun 18, 2015
Two children in the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho, where most Japanese Americans from Washington were send. (Photo courtesy of the Wing Luke Asian Museum, the Hatate Collection)

Densho gets federal grant for archive of Japanese American internment

by Venice Buhain
Densho received two of the 20 grants issued nationally to help preserve the history of Japanese American internment during World War II.
Jun 17, 2015