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Young Kwak photo Kim Arrotta, co-owner of Northtown Auto Sales, was frustrated that a next-door business, a sex shop, remained open throughout the spring shutdown.
LOCKDOWNS PITTED ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES AGAINST EVERYONE ELSE Previous years introduced new slang like manspreading and metrosexual into the cultural lexicon. In 2020? We got phrases like social distancing and essential businesses, bland jargon that our lives and our livelihoods depended on. By March 23, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee had officially issued his Stay Home, Stay Healthy order, shuttering most businesses in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus before it completely overwhelmed our health care system.
A Year in Local News
As 2020 comes to a close, a look back at some of the Source s biggest stories of the year Remember having New Year s parties? Or how about raucous family gatherings with all the beloved (and tolerated) relatives crowding around? Remember PPE shortages, wildfires, protests and protests about closures? Nicole Vulcan In late May, Central Oregonians gathered in downtown Bend for the first of what would turn into a summer of demonstrations centered around justice for George Floyd and other Black people killed at the hands of police. A lot can change in a year and while many people are more than ready to put 2020 behind us, we re taking one last look at some of the stories that impacted
Idahoâs relationship with Ammon Bundy is one of appeaser and the appeased â with predictable results.
Where was the outcry about the Emmett manâs exploits in Bunkerville, Nev.? Idaho has a lot of ranchers who pay an allotment to the federal landlord. But you didnât hear much from them when in 2014 Bundy and his family took up arms against federal officials who simply wanted them to compensate the government for grazing their cattle on the publicâs land?
There was even less heartburn two years later when Bundy organized the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns, Ore. In fact, state Reps. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay, and Judy Boyle, R-Midvale, took time to travel to Oregon and lend him support.
Editorial: An appeased Bundy is an emboldened Bundy lmtribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.