THURSDAY • January 21, 2021
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We must meet
this moment as
the United States
of America
— JOSEPH R. BIDEN, 46th president,
sworn in Wednesday alongside
Vice President Kamala Harris
Photo at top: Patrick Semansky/Pool via AP. Photo above: Melina Mara/The Washington Post
THE INAUGURATION
THE TRANSITION
On Day One, Biden targets
Trump policies on climate, virus
BY ZEKE MILLER AND AAMER MADHANI
Associated Press
P
resident Joe Biden is moving swiftly to dismantle Don-
ald Trump’s legacy on his first day in office, signing a
series of executive actions that reverse course on immi-
gration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the
coronavirus pandemic.
The new president signed the orders just hours after tak-
ing the oath of office at the Capitol, pivoting quickly from his
pared-down inauguration ceremony to enacting his agenda.
With the stroke of a pen, Biden ordered a halt to the construc-
tion of Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall, ended the ban on
travel from some Muslim-majority countries, declared his in-
tent to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health
Organization and revoked the approval of the Keystone XL oil
pipeline, aides said.
The 15 executive actions and two directives amount to an
attempt to rewind the last four years of federal policies with
striking speed. Only two recent presidents signed executive ac-
tions on their first day in office — and each signed just one.
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J
THE CEREMONY
HARRIS MAKES HISTORY
By Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press
With the next vice president, a
new chapter opens in U.S. politics
oseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th president
of the United States on Wednesday, declaring
BY KATHLEEN RONAYNE
AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE
Associated Press
that “democracy has prevailed” and summoning
American resilience and unity to confront the
deeply divided nation’s historic confluence of crises.
Denouncing a national “uncivil war,” Biden took the oath at
a U.S. Capitol that had been battered by an insurrectionist siege
just two weeks earlier. Then, taking his place in the White House
Oval Office, he plunged into a stack of executive actions that be-
gan to undo the heart of his polarizing predecessor’s agenda .
At the Capitol, with America’s tradition of peaceful transfers
of power never appearing more fragile, the ceremony unfolded
within a circle of security forces evocative of a war zone and de-
void of crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic.
See Inauguration / A6
COVERAGE INSIDE
Photos of the day, A3-6 • Oregon’s representatives react, A3
V
ice President Kamala Har-
ris broke the barrier that
has kept men at the top
ranks of American power for
more than two centuries when she
took the oath Wednesday to hold
The Washington Post the nation’s second-highest office.
Harris was sworn in as the
first female U.S. vice president — and the first Black woman
and person of South Asian descent to hold the position — in
front of the U.S. Capitol by Supreme Court Justice Sonia So-
tomayor. Later, she presided as Senate president for the first
time to swear in three new Democratic senators, including her
replacement.
After taking the oath of office, a beaming Harris hugged
her husband, Douglas Emhoff, and gave President Joe Biden
a fist bump.
Transcript of Biden’s inaugural address, A5 • Trump’s farewell, A5
See Harris / A15
CLASS OF 2020
DESCHUTES COUNTY
Grad rates rose locally and statewide
— but did COVID-19 play a factor?
Awaiting kidnapping trial,
man arrested in new cases
Extra push to help struggling students after closures may have increased rates, state schools chief said
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
The class of 2020 had per-
haps the strangest road to
graduation in a century when
the COVID-19 pandemic shut-
tered schools throughout Ore-
gon in mid-March.
Nonetheless, Oregon’s class
of 2020 still earned diplomas at
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Cross-country skiing
in the Ochocos
Local grad rates mostly rise
Every noncharter, nonalter-
native public high school in
Deschutes County saw a bump
in its graduation rate in 2020,
state data showed.
Summit High School had the
region’s highest graduation rate
at 94.4% — a leap of more than 4
percentage points. In 2020, Sum-
mit and Mountain View high
schools both closed the gradua-
tion rate gap between Latino and
white students that plagued both
Bend high schools in 2019.
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See Arrest / A6
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TODAY’S
WEATHER
Innovations,
could’ve anticipated,” Colt Gill,
head of the Oregon Department
of Education, told The Bulletin.
A man accused last year of
kidnapping his friend, dous-
ing him in gasoline and tak-
ing his prosthetic leg has been
indicted in two new cases al-
leging he tried to kidnap an-
other man and extort him.
Troy Kenneth Dahl, 35, is
back in custody this week af-
ter posting bail last summer
on the previous charges. Rel-
atives paid $25,000 in May
following Dahl’s arrest for a
shocking alleged assault on
his friend, La Pine resident
Shawn Taylor.
Dahl was charged in De-
schutes County Circuit Court
with the Measure 11 offense
of first-degree kidnapping,
as well as assault, coercion
and other crimes. Then, ear-
lier this month, a Deschutes
County grand jury indicted
him in two additional cases.
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High 45, Low 26
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a higher rate than ever before.
And data from the Oregon De-
partment of Education showed
rising graduation rates for ev-
ery major Central Oregon high
school but one.
“Clearly, this was a class that
turned out to be resilient, as
their senior year was impacted
in ways I don’t think any of us
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
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