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The impact on the presidential race is surprisingly hard to determine, at least for me. My first thought was this hurts Trump and, if I had to put money on it, I think that’s still the most likely outcome. He is in quarantine with a month to go before election day, while millions of Americans are already voting. In Campaigns 101, they teach you that’s not ideal.
Those suffering from the shutdowns are, for now, overwhelmingly at the lower end of the income spectrum in Oregon.
Because this is 2020, the moment of astonished mourning in the wake of deadly wildfires in Oregon and along the west coast lasted exactly a moment, before the important people started fighting about the cause of the fires and, more importantly, what that says about for whom we should vote for president.
The million dollar questions: What was the real target of her protest? The system of which she is a prominent part?
Some school districts don’t want to open even though the state would let them.
Have you noticed that COVID-19 hasn’t been in the news as much over the past few weeks? Friends, draw close so I may whisper to you that which is verboten in polite company: that’s because the disease is in retreat.
The United States of America is a rejection of government overreach, or at least it was.
On Wednesday, agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka, ICE) detained two men, apparently immigrants, in Bend.
