Oregon lawmakers OK millions for pandemic, wildfire costs
Emergency Board meets for record 13th time before 2021 session starts Monday.
Oregon lawmakers have approved millions in state and federal funds to pay some of the mounting expenses of the coronavirus pandemic and the Labor Day wildfires.
The Legislative Emergency Board acted during a four-hour meeting Friday, Jan. 8, its record 13th since the end of the 2020 session and its last before the 2021 session gets under way on Monday, Jan. 11.
The 20-member board decides budget matters between sessions.
Leaders planned the meeting after the Legislature drew $800 million from the state s projected ending balance during a special session Dec. 21. Unspent money reverts to the full Legislature.
Reginald Wilson: A Black American Socialist (1927-2020)
Reginald Wilson, the prominent African American psychologist and educator, civil rights activist and socialist, and a member of the
New Politics board, died on December 13, 2020 at the age of 93. His was a quintessentially Black American story of the twentieth century, if a particularly illustrious one. From his role as a Tuskegee Airman to his activism with C.L.R. James’
Correspondence group, to his founding of the first Black ski club, to his academic career he was a remarkable individual. A socialist for 75 years, he serves as a model for us today.
Reg’s parents Oliver Leon Wilson and Nancy McCrimmon Golden were from the South, his father born in Louisiana and his mother’s birth place unknown. They were part of the Great Migration, going north to Detroit where they settled in the Black Bottom neighborhood on the city’s near east side, a neighborhood that was demolished in the 1960s and replaced with Lafayette
Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History?
The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively a reckoning that has been decades in the making.
Photographs by JESSE PRATT LÓPEZ for The New Republic
Jon Ossoff arrives in Reverend Raphael Warnock s campaign bus at a rally in Conyers, Georgia, in early December.
If you speak with people who have long
known Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff the Democratic candidates hoping
to flip Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats in tightly contested runoff elections
on January 5 you will hear them use words like “destiny” and “providential” to
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