BY MELISSA SANTOS & LILLY FOWLER / CROSSCUT
Originally published January 20, 2021 on Crosscut.com
A fog set in at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia on Wednesday morning, as Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. What did not descend on the state Capitol, however, were groups of armed protesters, who officials feared might come to cause trouble following the riot at the U.S. Capitol and breach of the Washington Governor’s Mansion two weeks ago.
Washington National Guard troops were on site to guard against any repeat of the violence and disruption seen Jan. 6.
As a huge baseball fan, I find myself watching Ken Burns Baseball series with keen interest on the Major League Baseball (MLB) Network. The MLB Network has been airing segments of the series in recent days and I just can t pull myself away from the TV when it is on.
Such was the case during the holiday when I heard John Chancellor, the narrator of the program, mention how baseball in the years of 1910 to 1920 was blossoming and he went on to mention towns and their team names that were popular including the Quincy Crybabies. Who?
Obviously, my ears perked up and my immediate thought was he was referring to Quincy, Massachusetts and not Quincy, Illinois. So I did a little research and found that he was actually referring to our little river town in Illinois.
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Published: January 19, 2021, 9:02am
Share: Daffodils bloom near the Legislative Building on April 6, 2020 at the Capitol in Olympia. (Associated Press files)
OLYMPIA A proposed bill in the Legislature would change reopening metrics for schools, allowing kids to get back to in-person learning sooner than the current plan allows.
It is one of many Republicans plan to introduce this legislative session to reopen the state sooner. Last week, Republicans opposed new rules for the Legislature that allowed for a remote session. They also opposed extending COVID-19 emergency orders until the end of Inslee’s state of emergency, arguing that the proclamations should only be extended every few weeks.
Business groups press Washington Legislature for tax cuts, other COVID-19 relief By Paul Roberts, The Seattle Times
Published: January 17, 2021, 1:23pm
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After surviving 10 months of shutdowns, heavy layoffs, steep losses and chronic uncertainty, many businesses in Washington say they won’t see the end of the pandemic without significant help from state lawmakers.
But one week into the 2021 legislative session, prospects for that relief are anything but clear.
The good news: There’s strong bipartisan support in the Democrat-controlled state House and Senate for quick action on measures such as emergency grants for small business and more than $2.6 billion in cuts for unemployment taxes and other business costs.
Top 10 Towns People Abandoned For No Reason When you walk through a ghost town, it’s usually easy to see why people would leave. There could be an eternal fire burning underground like in Centralia, Pennsylvania. France has at least six abandoned towns in ruins due to German raids during WWII. But if you’re walking through a ghost town with perfectly good buildings, a decent location, and a stable political environment, then why would someone abandon a perfectly good town? Here are the top 10 towns that people abandoned for no apparent reason.
10 Dudleytown, Connecticut: The Dark Forest Atop of a hill in the quiet, forested Connecticut town of Cornwall is an abandoned village isolated from the rest of the world. Dudleytown, which sits in the now-private “Dark Entry Forest,” was settled in 1747 by the Dudleys. Not only is it abandoned, but according to local legend, cursed, as well. Dudleytown started like any early settlement, where people built homes, farmed land, and l