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Farmers in Columbia County may have trouble accessing programs through the U.S. Department of Agriculture locally when the USDA’s Dayton service center closes under federal cost-cutting reforms. The fate of the service center's employees remains unclear.
Senator Perry Dozier (R-16) and Representative Mark Klicker (R-16) will host a virtual town hall meeting on Monday, March 17 at 6:00 pm. Representative Skyler Rude (R-16) is not scheduled to be a participant. The meeting will conclude at 7:00 pm. Advance registration is required. Click here to register.
You may submit a question to Dozier and Klicker when you register.
Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, the chairman of House Republicans’ campaign arm, issued a stark message to the GOP rank and file on Tuesday: Stop having in-person town halls with your constituents.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
“More federal layoffs at Eastern WA nuclear contamination site,”read the headlines this past week. This has upset locals. The newspaper, the Tri-City Herald, recently excoriated their congressman, U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, for not doing anything to stop it.
“Residents of Washington’s 4th Congressional District did not elect Newhouse to stand idly by as President Donald Trump dismantles the federal government,” an editorial fumed.
To which I wondered: Didn’t they?
Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times
Why spend Democratic money in red districts? For the same reason we recruit the best candidates we can and then support them with blood and sweat, and most often tears . . . to build the party.
Don Schwerin, Ag & Rural Caucus
Ten Democrats sided with the speaker’s censure of Representative Al Green. The shameful act was diminished by colleagues supporting him singing “We Shall Overcome” on the House floor.
Joan Walsh, The Nation
In assessing how past presidents dealt with catastrophic downturns, you might give Herbert Hoover an F, Franklin Roosevelt an A, and Barack Obama a C-. But no other president has gone out of his way to create a collapse.
Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
Public lands have been described as America’s “best idea.” They are natural sanctuaries, sources of generational inspiration and for some, ancestral homelands. So, recent news coming from Washington, D.C.—possible plans to sell off our public lands and the firing of the staff needed to protect and access them—has the outdoor sports community’s attention.
Ryan Gellert, chief executive of Patagonia, writing in Time magazine
Rachel Maddow points out two surprising but mostly overlooked revelations that came from Donald Trump's Oval Office meltdown over his inability to arrange a deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
One is Trump revealing the last time he spoke with Vladimir Putin, something about which he is typically cagey. The second is the surprising presence in the room of a news organization that was not invited.
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
After Trump and Vance’s disgraceful treatment of President Zelensky on Friday, some of you might feel ashamed of America. You might even feel ashamed to be an American.
The proper locus of shame is Trump and Vance. I’m ashamed that they, along with Elon Musk, are now leading our nation. I’m also ashamed that their Republican lackeys in Congress are enabling and encouraging them. I’m ashamed that Democrats in Congress are so supine.
Robert Reich, Substack
A few days ago the New York Times had a good piece on how the former East Germany is suffering from a demographic doom loop: Young people, especially educated women, have been moving out. Those left behind are depressed; men, presumably, are frustrated; and they’re angry. One result has been strong support for the neo-Nazi Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which, of course, has been endorsed by Elon Musk and received support from JD Vance.
Paul Krugman, Substack
