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Housing Authority proposes to convert Tumwater hotel to low-income housing for seniors
A Tumwater hotel could become 58 units of low-income housing for seniors as part of a proposal from the Housing Authority of Thurston County. Across the country, municipalities are seeing pandemic slowdowns as an opportunity to cheaply acquire hotels and quickly convert them into much-needed affordable housing. Several pieces of this particular project already are…
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US Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland, 5 others recognized for promoting hanbok
U.S. Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland and five teams have received a certificate of appreciation from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for promoting Korean traditional hanbok attire. During an award ceremony hosted by the ministry in collaboration with the Hanbok Advancement Center, Monday, Strickland was recognized along with a collaboration between K-pop singer and actress…
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ABC News: The First 100 Days: Representative Nancy Mace and Representative Marilyn Strickland
Through the lens of Rep. Nancy Mace and Rep. Marilyn Strickland – ABC News Live documents the first 100 days of the most diverse Congress in history.
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Marilyn Strickland’s first 100 days were nuts
Welcome to our weekly Friday Q&A, “The Sitdown.” Today we chop it up with Democratic Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland, whose district includes Lakewood and Olympia, the state capital of Washington. She weighs in on how the Atlanta spa-shootings affected her and why she believes some of her freshman colleagues came to Washington to sow controversy —…
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Strickland Helps Introduce Legislation Assisting Food-Insecure Service Members
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland on Friday, April 2, announced that she is cosponsoring bipartisan legislation that would help low-income military families living with food insecurities make ends meet by providing a basic needs allowance. The legislation, titled the Military Hunger Prevention Act, would pay each covered member a basic needs allowance to support low-income service members…
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Kilmer, Strickland Accelerate Small Business Relief for Live Venues
U.S. Representatives Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) announced that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will open applications for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program to provide financial relief to live performance and art venues on Thursday, April 8, 2021. The SVOG program was established by the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses,…
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Strickland introduces bipartisan Military Hunger Prevention Act
Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) was among a bipartisan group of legislators who today introduced the Military Hunger Prevention Act. The legislation would establish a basic needs allowance paid by Secretary of Defense to low-income members of the armed forces. The bill aims to make it easier for covered members to purchase groceries and be food secure.…
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Opportunity in Crisis: Reimagining a Just Society
MS. GIVHAN: Welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Robin Givhan, senior critic-at-large, and I write about race, politics, and the arts, and today we’re kicking off a new series, Opportunity in Crisis. Our first program today is about how to build a more just and inclusive society in the aftermath of a year of racial…
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Rep. Marilyn Strickland says Derek Chauvin’s trial will be a ‘proof-point’
Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.) says the trial of Derek Chauvin will be a litmus test on whether we can trust institutions to do the right thing. “This is going to be a proof-point of whether or not people can have their faith restored in our government systems,” she said. Former Housing and Urban Development secretary…
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Congresswoman Strickland on Anti-Asian Violence
“I am proud to be Asian I belong here “ Immense sorrow, fear and anger blanketing Asian communities as a disturbing uptick in the number of anti-Asian hate crimes continues across the world. This highlighted by the shooting spree directed at several Atlanta-area businesses that left six Asian women dead. “Just try to get people…