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In January, I received an email from a frustrated furniture shopper.
“Months ago, my new wife and I ordered a bed frame and headboard for our new top-of-the-line Tempurpedic mattress,” J.B. Harris, a shopper and reader in Florida, lamented. Though they received their mattress within a reasonable time frame, the bed frame and headboard were missing in action. “It’s been an existential nightmare, as confounding as Samuel Beckett’s
Waiting for Godot.”
When I reconnected with Harris in April, he had finally received his shipment after many months of waiting. “West Elm has the worst supply chain issues of any retailer I have ever experienced,” he told me. “My advice to West Elm shoppers: If you cannot buy an item from a showroom floor, expect to wait weeks if not months to receive it.” He and his wife slept on a mattress on the floor fo
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Vancouver saw more anti-Asian hate crimes than any other major city in North America last year, according to a new report.
The report was released by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism (CHSE) at California State University San Bernadino.
“The largest increase (717% from 2019 to 2020) was in Vancouver, British Columbia, the nation’s third largest city,” the report said.
“Overall hate crime totals for the multi-city Canadian sample found a 74% increase in hate crimes overall from 2019 to 2020.”
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Keely Linton knows first-hand about the abuse suffered by Indigenous women.
She experienced domestic abuse, and she saw that violence reflected in the experiences of family and friends, and through her advocacy work.
But because of lapses in reporting and a lack of coordination between tribal, county and federal governments, Linton who is Íipay and Cupeno Native from the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians said accurate, local data is hard to come by.
“There’s just a lack of research and collective data to really know how many have been missing, how many have been murdered,” Linton said. “It’s really not something that has really been tracked properly.”
GRAPHIC: Study says hate crimes against Asian Americans up 164% from last year
GRAPHIC: Study says hate crimes against Asian Americans up 164% from last year By CNN Staff | May 7, 2021 at 10:51 AM CDT - Updated May 7 at 10:51 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) - Hate crimes against Asian Americans have been spiking since the beginning of this year, new research shows.
They’re up 164% over the same period last year, according to the study from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino.
Reports of attacks on Asian Americans have occurred across the country.
An Asian American father was beaten by a stranger last Friday as he was standing near an intersection in San Francisco, according to police, with his one-year-old baby in a stroller.
(SORRENTO VALLEY) KUSI- In partnership with the San Diego Padres and Curebound, Feeding San Diego is announcing an important program that provides free food assistance to patients facing cancer in San Diego County. Previously known as Groceries4Good, this new program, called Feeding Patients, provides a drive-through food pick up at different locations for patients and their families.
The first distribution will be held on Thursday, May 13 from 10 AM to 12 PM at Pechanga Arena San Diego. The second is on Saturday, May 15 from 9 AM to 11 AM at California State University San Marcos. People in need who live in these areas can register to receive approximately 50 pounds of nutritious food. Following these initial distributions, Feeding Patient pickups will be hosted specifically for participants of the program.