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BEND-LA PINE SCHOOLS
Insurrection aftermath
Siege by pro-Trump mob
forces hard questions
In-person
school to
resume later
this month
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Ten months after the COVID-19 pan-
demic closed school doors, students in
Bend, La Pine and Sunriver will begin re-
turning to in-person learning on Jan. 25. But
students will return in waves, not all at once.
Early Thursday morning, Bend-La Pine
Schools — Oregon’s largest school district
east of the Cascades — unveiled its plan to
transition its nearly 17,500 students back
into classrooms, with K-5 coming back first.
“For me, and for many families and staff,
it’s very exciting,” Superintendent Lora Nor-
dquist said of the reopening plan.
The announcement came about two
weeks after Gov. Kate Brown ceded control
of school reopenings to local school districts
in late December. Previously, the state set
strict reopening standards for much of the
COVID-19 pandemic.
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BEND
John Minchillo/AP
Capitol police officers stand outside of fencing that was installed around the exterior of the Capitol grounds on Thursday in Washington. A violent throng
of pro-Trump rioters spent hours Wednesday running rampant through the Capitol. A woman was fatally shot, windows were bashed and the mob forced
shaken lawmakers and aides to flee the building, shielded by Capitol Police.
With 13 days left in Trump’s term,
a nation shaken by the violence
carried out in his name is left
wondering what he might do next
BY LISA MASCARO AND MATTHEW DALY
The Associated Press
W
ASHINGTON — One day later,
the violent siege of the U.S. Capi-
tol by President Donald Trump’s
supporters forced painful new questions
across government — about his fitness to re-
main in office for two more weeks, the abil-
ity of the police to secure the complex and
the future of the Republican Party in a post-
Trump era.
In the immediate aftermath, the attack
on the world’s iconic dome of democracy,
shocking imagery flashed around the globe,
reinforced lawmakers’ resolve to stay up all
night to finish counting the Electoral Col-
lege vote confirming Democrat Joe Biden
won the presidential election.
Trump Cabinet officials quit
Two members of President Donald Trump’s
Cabinet quit Thursday, a day after a pro-
Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has be-
come the second Cabinet secretary to resign.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao ten-
dered her resignation earlier Thursday.
In a resignation letter DeVos blamed Pres-
ident Donald Trump for inflaming tensions in
the violent assault on the seat of the nation’s
democracy. She said, “There is no mistaking
the impact your rhetoric had on the situation,
and it is the inflection point for me.”
Graham: Trump must accept role
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of
President Donald Trump’s top congressio-
nal allies, said the president must accept his
own role in the violence that occurred at the
U.S. Capitol. The South Carolina senator said
Thursday that Trump “needs to understand
that his actions were the problem, not the
solution.”
Congress finalizes Biden
victory; Oregon’s Bentz
objects to electors
Amid national chaos,
4 new members of
City Council sworn in
BY BRENNA VISSER
The Bulletin
n a day scarred by a historic violent at-
tack on the U.S. Capitol as Congress met,
shaken lawmakers insisted on resuming
a session that went late into the night to ap-
prove the Electoral College vote for Presi-
dent-elect Joe Biden early Thursday morning.
Lawmakers had come to Congress on
Wednesday expecting a contentious day of
debate as a splinter group of Republicans
said they would slow and perhaps even halt
the traditional reading of the votes for presi-
dent cast Dec. 14 by the Electoral College.
President Donald Trump had been cease-
lessly pushing claims that the election was
stolen from him despite losing to Democrat
Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes and
a 306-232 tally in the Electoral College.
Amid one of the most historic and chaotic
days in American history, at least one event
in Bend continued as scheduled: the swear-
ing-in of four new members of the Bend
City Council.
In a virtual meeting held Wednesday, new
councilors Melanie Kebler, Anthony Broad-
man, Megan Perkins and Rita Schenkelberg
took the oath of office. The four replace for-
mer councilors Justin Livingston, Bill Mose-
ley, Chris Piper and Bruce Abernethy.
The siege earlier Wednesday in the na-
tion’s Capitol, where a pro-President Donald
Trump mob infiltrated the halls of Congress
to disrupt the final counting of Electoral
College votes in the presidential election,
prompted the council to cancel an in-per-
son ceremony at the Deschutes County Ser-
vices building and opt for a virtual one after
Mayor Sally Russell expressed some reserva-
tions about possible safety concerns.
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BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
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2020: A YEAR OF CHALLENGES
The humility of medicine
Baskerville heads OHSU intensive care unit; he watched families make unthinkable decisions
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Mark Baskerville and his wife, Jennifer, stand on their back patio over-
looking the Deschutes River in Bend on Dec. 19.
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Most people would call three hours a
long commute. Bend resident Mark Bask-
erville calls it “therapy.”
Baskerville, a 52-year-old physician, has
made the drive from Bend to Portland,
and back, for eight years as director of the
intensive care unit at Oregon Health &
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Science University, arguably the grimmest
front in the state’s war against COVID-19.
In shifts lasting up to two weeks, he’s
nearly always on when he’s in Portland. In
2020, a difficult year for most Americans,
he watched families make unthinkable de-
cisions, and patients slowly die from the
disease, or, just as randomly, pull through
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Living in Bend affords Baskerville rel-
ative anonymity and a chance to focus on
his family when he’s off work, which is
also usually for around a week or two at a
time. The physical distance also provides
a clearer separation between Baskerville’s
personal and professional lives, which he
says has been nice during the pandemic.
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