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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: January 19, 2021 Councilmember Vivian Olson, bottom row at right, speaks during Tuesday’s council meeting. The Edmonds City Council during its Tuesday night business meeting unanimously extended the appointment of Acting Police Chief Jim Lawless for an additional six months while the city conducts a new national search for a police chief. A long-time assistant chief, Lawless was appointed acting chief a year ago. Without the council’s action, his appointment would have expired Jan. 22. During a previous search, Lawless was one of two finalists for the permanent...

The Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors approved more than $1.5 million to address COVID-19 needs for county schools this week, but rejected two other requests totaling nearly $865,000 after debating a change in its bylaws that threatened to block a vote on allocating the money. The board juggled public safety bonuses and COVID-19 funding for schools and county staff during its meeting Tuesday. It tabled until its next meeting a proposal to provide bonuses for public safety workers who did not receive an earlier bonus mandated and funded by the state. The board, however, approved over $1.5 mill...

>> thank you, madam speaker. today the house is voting to conserve a principle, what makes america the most prosperous nation in the world is our reverence for the rule of law. it's our love of the law that protects our freedoms, private property, our families from the exercise of arbitrary power. the real threat to american leadership in the 21st century is internal decline. we choose not to stand idly by while we see the corrupting of our body politic with an attitude that winners don't have to follow the rules. in voting to impeach, we remember lincoln's address, let every american, every w...

We pledged when we raised our right hand and swore an oath to defend our constitution. anything other than a vote to impeach will be read as a vote endorsing a future president without rules or consequences, an anything goes, no-holds-barred that will leave us weaker and surely undermine what the framers pass down. we owe it to future generations to transcend personal interest and party loyalty and vote our conscience for what's really at sake today, the sanctity of our constitution and the sanctity of our democracy. thank you and i yield back. >> gentleman from oklahoma. >> thank you, madam s...

Coverage now on msnbc of the house of representatives which is about to vote on the rules of debate on the articles of impeachment, two of them after more than an hour of back and forth on the house floor so far. and after this the house will move on to debate article ii, abuse of power and obstruction of congress before a final vote some time this evening. i should point out this procedural vote is called moving the previous question and is almost always won by the majority party because you're basically giving the majority party the right to control the debate. on very rare occasions the min...