Tension among members of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors sometimes reached a fever pitch in 2020.
Faced with a global pandemic and a divisive election year that would determine the political balance of the board, disagreements among the county’s five supervisors often played out in public.
Despite those conflicts, the board was able to navigate some of its biggest challenges in 2020, including becoming one of the first counties in the country to declare a local emergency in response to COVID-19 in February and later passing a $6.5 billion annual budget the largest in county history.
While every board member deserves some credit for that, one board member most often functioned as the board’s peacemaker: Supervisor Greg Cox. Cox chaired the board during a year unlike any other in his 26-year tenure on the board.
Helped American agriculture both respond to pandemic and thrive
Jan 2, 2021
In mid-December, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue released a detailed assessment of his department’s accomplishments in 2020.
“While this was a tough year with the coronavirus, historic wildfires and weather damage, USDA met these challenges with a multitude of programs and services to support Americans and keep our agricultural sector running and responsive to the country’s needs,” Perdue said.
The USDA stayed focused on assisting, strengthening and promoting American agriculture. It also developed and operated an array of initiatives designed to help our nation respond to the pandemic.
100 images that defined the Ann Arbor area in 2020
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
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ANN ARBOR – 2020 is history.
It will no doubt go down as one of the most unusual years in our city’s - and our country’s - history. Never content to simply be along for the ride, Ann Arbor has taken on every issue that the year presented in its own unique way.
From the eerily quiet streets that characterized the early peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April to the fever pitch of a tumultuous election year, from the isolation of self-quarantine to the vibrant culture that emerged again as we learned new ways to connect through the year, Ann Arbor’s story was written in moments big and small.
Despite the challenges presented by the global public health crisis and anti-globalization headwinds, there are increasing expectations that China, Japan and the Republic of Korea will sign an advanced free trade agreement.
One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thursday on a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. By a 385-41 vote, the House approved a bill that puts in place terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The legislation passed after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her colleagues won key. Immigration Dec 13, 2019
It was nighttime when Pedro Lucas came home, clutching receipts showing he had paid a funeral home to have the bodies of three immigrant laborers returned to Guatemala from Oregon. The three, including two of Lucas’ cousins, were killed when a pickup truck slammed into a van carrying them and 10 other Guatemalans home from work at a Christmas tree…