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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017
Trump takes charge with vow to stir a ‘new national pride’
Businessman sworn
in as the nation’s
45th president
By JULIE PACE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Pledging to
empower America’s “forgotten men
and women,” Donald Trump was
sworn in as the 45th president of the
United States Friday, taking command
of a deeply divided nation and usher-
ing in an unpredictable era in Wash-
ington. His victory gives Republicans
control of the White House for the first
time in eight years.
Looking out over the crowd
sprawled across the National Mall,
Trump painted a bleak picture of
the nation he now leads, lamenting
“American carnage,” shuttered fac-
tories and depleted U.S. leadership.
President Barack Obama, the man he
replaced, sat behind him stoically.
Trump’s first words as commander
in chief were an unapologetic reprisal
of the economic populism and nation-
alism that fueled his improbable cam-
paign. He vowed to stir “new national
pride,” bring jobs back to the United
States, and “eradicate completely”
Islamic terrorism.
“From this day forward, a new
vision will govern our land. From
this day forward, it’s going to be only,
‘America First,” Trump said in a
16-minute address.
In a remarkable scene, Trump
ripped into Washington’s longtime
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with President Barack Obama.
leaders as he stood among them at the
U.S. Capitol. For too long, he said,
“a small group in our nation’s capital
has reaped the rewards of government
while the people have borne the cost.”
For Republicans eager to be back in
the White House, there was little men-
tion of the party’s bedrock principles:
small government, social conservativ-
ism and robust American leadership
around the world. Trump, who is tak-
ing office as one of the most unpopular
incoming presidents in modern history,
made only oblique references to those
who may be infuriated and fearful of
his presidency.
“To all Americans in every city near
and far, small and large from mountain
to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear
these words: You will never be ignored
again,” he said.
Trump was sworn in by Chief Jus-
tice John Roberts, reciting the 35-word
oath with his hand placed upon two
Bibles, one used by his family and
another during President Abraham
Lincoln’s inauguration.
Trump and wife, Melania, bid
Obama and outgoing first lady Michelle
Obama farewell as they departed the
Capitol grounds in a government heli-
copter. Trump and Obama’s political
paths have been linked in remarkable
ways. Before running for the White
House, the billionaire businessman led
efforts to promote falsehoods about the
44th president’s citizenship and claim
on the office.
Trump’s journey to the inauguration
was as unlikely as any in recent Ameri-
can history. He defied his party’s estab-
lishment, befuddled the media and top-
pled two political dynasties on his way
to victory. His message, calling for a
resurgence of white, working-class
corners of America, was packaged in
defiant stump speeches railing against
political correctness. He used social
media to dominate the national con-
versation and challenge conventions
about political discourse. After years
of Democratic control of the White
House and deadlock in Washington,
his was a blast of fresh air for millions.
But Trump’s call for restrictive
immigration measures and his caus-
tic campaign rhetoric about women
and minorities angered millions. And
Trump’s swearing-in was shadowed
by questions about his ties to Russia,
which U.S. intelligence agencies have
determined worked to tip the election
in his favor.
Trump’s inauguration drew crowds
to the nation’s capital to witness the
history, though the crowds appeared
smaller than past celebrations. Demon-
strations unfolded at various security
checkpoints near the Capitol as police
in riot gear helped ticket-holders get
through to the ceremony.
More than 60 House Democrats
refused to attend his swearing in cer-
emony in the shadow of the Capi-
tol dome. One Democrat who did sit
among the dignitaries was Hillary
Clinton, Trump’s vanquished cam-
paign rival who was widely expected
by both parties to be the one taking the
oath of office.
At 70, Trump is the oldest person
to be sworn in as president, marking a
generational step backward after two
terms for Obama, one of the young-
est presidents to serve as commander
in chief.
Trump takes charge of an econ-
omy that has recovered from the Great
Recession but has nonetheless left mil-
lions of Americans feeling left behind.
The nation’s longest war is still being
waged in Afghanistan and U.S. troops
are battling the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria. The American health care
system was expanded to reach mil-
lions more Americans during Obama’s
tenure, but at considerable financial
costs. Trump has vowed to dismantle
and rebuild it.
Trump faces challenges as the first
president to take office without ever
having held a political position or
served in the military. He has stacked
his Cabinet with established Washing-
ton figures and wealthy business lead-
ers. Though his team’s conservative
bent has been cheered by many Repub-
licans, the overwhelmingly white and
male Cabinet has been criticized for a
lack of diversity.
In a show of solidarity, all of the
living American presidents attended
the swearing-in ceremony, except for
92-year-old George H.W. Bush, who
was hospitalized this week with pneu-
monia. His wife, Barbara, was also
admitted to the hospital after falling ill.
AP writers Vivian Salama and
Nancy Benac contributed to this
report.
Makers: Tackling the region’s housing crisis, one modular at a time
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Sisson’s father mentioned
his son was in Astoria, where
the two eventually met and
found their visions for building
economy from the ground up
aligned. Herman moved from
Kansas City to Astoria a year
ago, rented a studio apartment,
purchased a 5,000-square-foot
warehouse and formed Astoria
Makers in July.
Community needs
“There’s a lot of people,
when they ask me what we
do and we tell them about the
maker space, they’re really
intrigued by that concept,” Her-
man said, adding people tell
him, “‘I don’t have the tools or
the wood to build a table, and I
don’t have the space to do it, if I
had the tools.’”
Inside Astoria Makers is
a relatively blank slate, being
built out by Herman and Sis-
son in anticipation of an April
opening as they try to recruit
craftsmen.
“Our plan is to focus pri-
marily on a wood shop that
would be accessible to commu-
nity members as well as small
businesses,” Sisson said.
A main workshop includes
all manner of higher-end wood-
working equipment. A small
office in the corner includes a
laser cutter and engraver, 3-D
printer and computers with
design software.
On the side, Astoria Mak-
ers provides design and custom
fabrication services to business
clients, including laser-cutting
imagery onto glassware and
flasks for Fort George Brew-
ery, and engraving signage for
the brewery’s upcoming Festi-
val of the Dark Arts stout beer
event next month.
Part of the process, Sisson
said, is surveying the commu-
nity and figuring out what peo-
ple’s needs are. Sisson said they
also want to provide a space
where people can come to learn
new skills, practice and incu-
bate ideas that can turn into
businesses.
Supporting business
Advising Astoria Makers is
Kelly Roy, who in 2011 started
ADX Portland in 12,000
square feet of blank warehouse
space. The maker space has
since hosted and spun off hun-
dreds of companies and nearly
tripled in size, becoming a
model for other such spaces
nationwide.
“When we first opened,
people were just waiting for
us to fail,” Roy said of the bare
space ADX started with, simi-
lar to Astoria Makers.
But ADX had a good busi-
ness model, she said, earn-
ing revenue through members,
holding classes, helping peo-
ple train for jobs elsewhere and
spinning off an in-house fabri-
cation and design team working
with clients. The biggest hur-
dles, she said, were getting peo-
ple to buy into the concept of
sharing spaces and tools, gain-
ing acceptance from the busi-
ness community and assem-
bling a team to run the space.
But she said ADX Portland
has seen hundreds of businesses
start in and leave the space,
and is adding more warehouse
reach, she said, to provide sev-
eral businesses with a dedicated
shop to outfit their business and
prove their ideas.
“It’s really become this
interconnected web of compa-
nies and workers,” Roy said.
Roy went to graduate school
with Astoria Community
Development Director Kevin
Cronin. He brought her in for
enough demand out there for
businesses that need spaces like
that to be able to be able to tin-
ker with their products, their
ideas.”
Small houses
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Glen Herman, owner, left, and Ian Sisson, designer and
project manager, smile for a portrait in their Astoria
Makers warehouse space on Tuesday in Miles Crossing.
More photos online at DailyAstorian.com
a panel discussion Thursday
to talk about the importance of
maker spaces as part Advance
Astoria, the city’s five-year eco-
nomic development strategy.
Cronin said creating a
maker space is a concrete
example of what a city can do
to help the myriad of home-
and online-based businesses in
the region tinker and expand
their markets. “I think there’s
Sisson and Herman said
they hope the maker space and
their client work can help keep
the doors open while they pur-
sue a longer-term project: tack-
ling the region’s housing crisis,
one modular at a time.
“We’re trying to solve that
problem of affordable hous-
ing,” Herman said. “We’re
really not trying to build huge
houses. We’re looking at an
800- to 1,000-square-foot mod-
ular home.”
The first concept of the
modular will be Herman’s
own home. The purchase of
the warehouse in Miles Cross-
ing came with a 40-foot ship-
ping container, which Sisson
said Astoria Makers will also
explore turning into a modular
home.
Herman said part of the
housing project is getting to
know the local contractors and
experts Astoria Makers can
work with. “There’s a lot of tal-
ent in this area.”
Trademark: ‘We should have stuck to our ideals and vision’
Continued from Page 1A
“In hindsight, I feel we lost
our true cause, who we were,
just to gain the trademark,” he
wrote. “We should have stuck
to our ideals and vision.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals
in Washington, D.C., ruled in
favor of the band in 2015, find-
ing that the federal law which
bans the registration of dispar-
aging trademarks is a violation
of the First Amendment. The
Patent and Trademark Office
appealed to the Supreme
Court.
Moxley, who is of Viet-
namese descent, was a refu-
gee after the fall of Saigon at
the end of the Vietnam War in
1975 and was adopted by an
American family. The family
moved to Astoria in 1980 and
Moxley, now 42, graduated
from Astoria High School in
1992. He wrote a song for the
dance-rock band called “Asto-
ria,” which appears on the
album “Pageantry.”
Moxley lives in Portland
and works as a music writer
and part-time bartender.
He said in an email exchange
with The Daily Astorian that
he quit The Slants because he
Lecture: Other films shot in Oregon, Oregon
Film Museum in Astoria were also discussed
Continued from Page 1A
letter written by “Fisherman’s
Bride” director Francis Boggs
to Selig regarding the new stu-
dio, referenced the film’s loca-
tion in Astoria.
Burns supplemented his
lecture with a picture slide
show that included photos of
the documents. After explain-
ing the history of Selig Poly-
scope and the “Fisherman’s
Bride,” he also spoke about
other films shot in Oregon and
the Oregon Film Museum in
Astoria.
Throughout the lecture,
part of a series called “Thurs-
day Night Talks,” the audience
of roughly 60 people laughed
at some of the quirky facts
and photos from film history.
At one point, Burns discussed
how President Theodore Roo-
sevelt wanted to have a film
found a new job and could no
longer tour as extensively as
he had in the past. Because he
felt he had a unique perspective
on the Lee v. Tam case, he said
he decided to share his feelings
about the name controversy
again on Facebook.
“No longer being in the
band has allowed me to see
it from the outside as well as
the inside,” Moxley said. “I
no longer have to be a united
front for the sole purpose of
the trademark.”
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