Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden plans to seek reelection in 2022
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 01, 2021
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, speaks with reporters at the Oregon State Fairgrounds wildfire evacuation center in Salem in this September 2020 file photo. Wyden announced this week that he will seek reelection in 2022.Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian/OregonLive
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden says he’s seeking reelection in 2022, ending speculation that Oregon’s senior senator might retire and pave the way for a crowded lineup of potential replacements.
Wyden, 71, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that he believes he has more work to do in Washington D.C.
Congress, the U.S. Marines, and Missiles: The Fight for Asian Security
The U.S. Marine Corps sensibly asked for tomahawk cruise missiles for its strategy to fight the Chinese Navy in case of war. Why then did Congress say no?
The U.S. Marine Corps may have a communications problem. Since assuming the post of commandant in mid-2019, General David Berger has been pushing operational concepts that make eminent sense for the Western Pacific. They bear such labels as Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations. Under these concepts, small bodies of marines will flit from island to island and pummel China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy with missile barrages or, better yet, deter the PLA Navy from assaying a breakout from the China seas into the broad Pacific in the first place. Sea-service chieftains codified these concepts through the “Triservice Maritime Strategy” they published earlier this month.
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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
San Diego’s new minimum wage hike: Will it help or hurt during a pandemic? [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
As many of the county’s beaten-down businesses enter the new year still in the grips of a crippling COVID lockdown, they face yet another financial tug on an already precarious future an 8 percent jump in the minimum wage.
The timing, they say, couldn’t be worse as many struggle to eke out what little revenue they can until vaccines take hold, the pandemic eases and some semblance of a profit returns.
To be sure, employment in sectors like leisure and hospitality is already down by double digits, but for those businesses that are still operating, even at minimal staffing, labor costs will rise this year as the minimum wage jumps a dollar an hour across the county. In the city of San Diego, it will rise from $13 an hour to $14 , while in the rest of the county, the $14 hourly rate will apply to companies with 26 or more employees. For smalle