Right now, House impeachment managers are making a case for why ex-President Donald Trump should be held accountable for inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
February 12 2021
Mark Reynolds is executive director of Citizens Climate Lobby. Kelsey Allen is a member of the Portland chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby.
COVID-19 is a public health challenge, but as the pandemic goes on, it s clearly an economic crisis, too.
A survey of Portland downtown businesses in September found over 20 businesses had permanently closed and over 80 retail locations were not occupied. That same month, about 100,000 area residents were unemployed, which is about twice as many people as in September 2019.
To help people across America, Congress passed an emergency relief package in March that gave direct payments of $1,200 to most adults and $500 to most children. In December, the House and Senate agreed on a second relief package that will deliver another $600 to most adults in the coming weeks.
Those in the media business already nostalgic for Donald Trump Wall-to-wall coverage will dominate national news networks. Ratings will rise from the previous week, albeit not by much. Because here s the thing: Trump will be there in name only, after his lawyers rejected performance art calls for him to testify, as if he were Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) flying up to Washington, D.C. and confessing under oath after a grilling from Rep. Eric Swalwell
So, without unhinged Trump soundbites or tweets thanks to a social media ban that appears to be in perpetuity, and without one more contrived confrontation between the former president and (insert correspondent here), will this week really be must-see-TV? After all, this is just a replay of Impeachment 1.0 from 2020, with the outcome already determined. There won t be anything close to the 17 votes on the Republican side to convict, which under normal circumstances would result in removing a president from office. Trump did that
The Biden administration is set to reengage with the agency three years after the Trump administration dropped out due to its disproportionate focus on I.