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Deschutes County cases: 6,633 (51 new cases)
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and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face.
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(Nov. 14)
40
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House votes to make Juneteenth a state holiday
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon’s next official state
holiday is proposed to be the
anniversary of the final procla-
mation of the end of slavery in
the United States.
June 19, “Juneteenth,” would
be the 11th state holiday un-
der House Bill 2168, which
cleared the House on a 53-0
vote Thursday and went to the
Senate.
Rep. Mark Meek, D-Oregon
City, even concluded his sup-
port of the bill with an a cap-
pella rendition of “Lift Every
Voice and Sing.” Also known as
the Black national anthem, its
words were written by James
“We all know we are still dealing with systemic racism and
racial discrimination in our country. But each time injustice
has reared its ugly head, it has been met with resistance.
— Rep. Mark Meek, D-Oregon City
Weldon Johnson and music
by J. Rosamond Johnson, his
brother, in time for the 1905
commemoration of Abraham
Lincoln’s birthday.
“We all know we are still
dealing with systemic racism
and racial discrimination in
our country,” said Meek, one
of a record nine members of
color in the House. “But each
time injustice has reared its
ugly head, it has been met with
resistance.
“Slavery was met with the
work of abolitionists. Jim Crow
was met with the civil rights
movement. The rise of racially
discriminatory police violence
is now being met with strong
affirmation that Black lives
matter.”
Portland and Multnomah
County declared June 19 a hol-
iday for their public employees
last year, just weeks after na-
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National Archives
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tionwide protests triggered by
the death of George Floyd by
a police officer now on trial in
Minneapolis for murder.
Gov. Kate Brown said then
she would seek to write June
19 into law as a state holiday.
House Bill 2168 was intro-
duced at her request.
Twenty years ago, the Legis-
lature designated June 19 as a
day of celebration but did not
make it a state holiday.
Although 47 of the 50 states
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Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald file
Phillips Reservoir, which supplies irrigation water to Baker Valley farms and ranches, was holding about
5,500 acre-feet of water when the photo was taken in November. Today, the reservoir is impounding about
14,500 acre-feet — approximately 19% of its capacity.
Baker County declares
drought emergency
BY SAMANTHA O’CONNER
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — The Baker
County Commission unani-
mously approved a resolution
Wednesday, April 7, declar-
ing a drought disaster in the
county and asking Gov. Kate
Brown and U.S. Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack to fol-
low suit.
State and federal drought
declarations could make
county property owners eligi-
ble for financial aid, and give
state water regulators more
flexibility in allocating water.
Baker County could be-
come the second of Oregon’s
36 counties to have a state
drought declaration.
Brown on March 31 de-
clared a drought in Klamath
County, the first such decla-
ration of 2021. Baker County
also declared a drought disas-
ter in late summer 2020.
SEATTLE — The Biden
administration has halted its
predecessor’s decision to sell
the federal archives building
in Seattle, following months
of opposition from people
across the Pacific Northwest
and a lawsuit.
The federal Office of Man-
agement and Budget has
withdrawn its approval for
the sale, which would have
forced the transfer of millions
of records to facilities in Kan-
sas City, Missouri, and River-
side, California.
A federal judge had tem-
porarily blocked the sale,
pending a lawsuit by Wash-
ington, Oregon and more
than two dozen Native Amer-
ican and Alaska Native tribes.
Last month, 25 of the 26
members of Congress from
Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Alaska signed a letter
urging the Biden administra-
tion to reverse course.
The records at National
Archives facility date to the
1840s and include docu-
ments key to the histories
of 272 federally recognized
tribes in Washington, Alaska,
Oregon and Idaho. It houses
all federal records generated
in the Pacific Northwest, in-
cluding military service, land,
court, tax, marriage and cen-
sus documents.
The documents also in-
clude records of Japanese
Americans sent to internment
camps during World War II.
There are 50,000 files related
to the Chinese Exclusion Act,
which limited the presence of
Chinese laborers in the U.S.
from 1882 until 1943, includ-
ing photos and interrogations
of Chinese immigrants.
Only a tiny fraction of the
records have been digitized,
and the facility is frequently
used for research related to
genealogy, land use and water
rights, treaties and other his-
torical topics.
Inmates sue over handling of virus
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — More than
a dozen current and former in-
mates have sued Multnomah
County over its handling of
COVID-19.
In federal court documents
filed this week, the inmates
allege they contracted the vi-
rus at the county’s Inverness
Jail because they were denied
proper testing and treatment .
The complaint filed Mon-
day in Portland also says the
county knowingly put infected
guards and inmates with those
who were not infected, further
spreading the disease.
On Feb. 17, more than 37%
of inmates tested positive for
COVID-19, court papers say,
while the general population of
Oregon was contracting the vi-
rus at a rate of 3.5%.
“The reason for the outbreak
is not a mystery,” the lawsuit
says. “Inverness does not en-
force use of PPE by its staff.
Inverness corrections staff rou-
tinely do not wear masks and
express statements disapprov-
ing of wearing masks.”
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration Seattle building
houses all federal records generated in the Pacific Northwest.
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