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Capitol building no stranger to violence The recent assault was the latest in a long series of destructive and sometimes deadly incidents that date back to the early 1800s. DEAR DAVE: I was sickened by the Jan. 6 mob assault on the U.S. Capitol building. Has it ever been attacked before? ANSWER: Believe it or not, there have been more than a dozen assaults on the Capitol or its occupants since construction began in 1793. Some involved just one or two people, one was launched by British armed forces, while others were started by angry mobs like the one that temporarily seized it earlier this month. British troops burned down much of the Capitol, the White House (then called the “Presidential Mansion”) and several surrounding government buildings as the War of 1812 dragged on. Fortunately, Mother Nature saved the day: A massive rainstorm struck the area several hours after it was set ablaze, extinguishing the fires and sending the British forces packing much earlier than planned. Another major assault occurred on March 1, 1954, when four people who wanted the U.S. to grant Puerto Rico its independence
smuggled several handguns into the lightly-guarded Capitol and opened fire while Congress was meeting on the House floor. Five Congressmen were shot before the intruders were apprehended by visitors and police and later sent to prison. And on Nov. 7, 1983, a pro-communist group of women denotated a bomb in the Capitol’s north wing around 11 p.m. No one was hurt because most of the elected officials and their staffs had already gone home, but the extensive damage that the explosion caused is believed to be the most destructive attack on the building by an organized terrorist group. It’s also worth noting that when terrorists flew jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers of a fourth jet that officials believe was headed for the Capitol were overcome by its brave passengers and crew. It instead crashed into an open field in Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people aboard. ••• REAL ESTATE TRIVIA: The Capitol, which stands on four acres at the east end of the National Mall, has about 600 rooms and 658 windows. Elected officials and their staffers can move about
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February is right around the corner! Make sure you consider the following tips for your February landscape. Of greatest immediate concern is the first bullet point. Let’s hope this weekend’s weather forecast holds up: • It is getting very dry, especially near the soil surface. If you have trees or shrubs that have been planted in the past year or two, they could probably use a good watering. • February is the time to control those pesky winter weeds. Herbicide control is much more effective if an application can be made before explosive spring growth occurs. See OSU Fact Sheet HLA6601 Broadleaf Weed Control for Weeds in Oklahoma and Fact Sheet HLA-6421 Controlling Weeds in Home Lawns. As always, remember that all pesticides are only effective if used properly. Always follow label directions and do not hesitate to call the Payne County Extension office if you have questions concerning proper use. • Winter tree pruning should be completed as soon as possible. February is NOT the time to prune most shrubs. Spring flowering shrubs such as flowering quince, forsythia, winter honeysuckle and winter
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No parades, so many make Mardis Gras ‘house floats’ NEW ORLEANS – You just can’t keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds during the Carnival season leading to Fat Tuesday. Some smaller groups announced no-parade plans before the city did. Pandemic replacements include scavenger hunts for signature trinkets that normally would be thrown from floats or handed out from a streetcar, as well as outdoor art and drive-thru or virtual parades. The prominent Krewe of Bacchus has an app where people can catch and trade virtual trinkets during Carnival and watch a virtual parade Feb. 14, when the parade had been scheduled. But the “house float” movement started almost as soon as a New Orleans spokesman announced Nov. 17 that parades were off. That morning, Megan Joy Boudreaux posted what she later called a silly Twitter joke: “We’re doing this. Turn your house into a float and throw all the beads from your attic at your neighbors
walking by.” But the more she thought about it, the more she liked it. She started a Facebook group, the Krewe of House Floats, expecting a few friends and neighbors to join. The numbers rose. Thirty-nine subgroups evolved to discuss neighborhood plans. By Carnival season’s official start Jan. 6, the group had more than 9,000 members, including out-of-state “expats.” About 3,000, including a few as far afield as England and Australia, will have their houses on an official online map, said Charlotte “Charlie” Jallans-Daly, one of two mapmakers. Houses are to be decorated at least two weeks before Fat Tuesday, which is Feb. 16 this year. With widespread addresses and two weeks to gawk, the hope is that people will spread out widely in time and space. “I didn’t think I was starting a Mardi Gras krewe. Here I am,” Boudreaux said. “I’ve got myself a second full-time job.” Discussions in the Facebook groups include how-tos, ads for props and neighborhood themes. Artists have given livestreamed outdoor lessons. Katie Bankens posted that her block’s theme was
Shark Week staycation paradise. When a resident worried that she was not “crafty” enough, administrator Carley Sercovich replied that if they could play music and throw trinkets to neighbors, “you are perfect for this Krewe!” Boudreaux also suggested that people could hire or buy from out-of-work Carnival artists and suppliers hit by the parade cancellation. A spreadsheet of artists and vendors followed. One of them, artist Dominic “Dom” Graves, booked more than 20 five-person classes in professional papier mache techniques, at $100 a person. Devin DeWulf, who already had started two pandemic charities as head of the Krewe of Red Beans walking club, kicked the house float idea up a few notches at the suggestion of Caro-
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Designer, Caroline Thomas looks at a house decorated like a parade float Jan. 8 in New Orleans. line Thomas, a professional float designer. Their “Hire a Mardi Gras Artist” crowdfunded lotteries collected enough money to put crews to work decorating 11 houses, plus commissioned work at two more houses and seven businesses. “We’ve put about 40 people to work, which is nice,” DeWulf said. With Mardi Gras ap-
proaching, he said a 12th lottery would be the last. One commissioned house is rented by a pair of nuns. Sisters Mary Ann Specha and Julie Walsh, who run a shelter for homeless women with children, had to get permission for their own crowdfunding from the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Presentation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubuque, Iowa. “They loved it,” Specha said. The crowdfunded decorations may be auctioned after Mardi Gras to raise more money, DeWulf said. Several mansions along a short stretch of St. Charles Avenue had elaborate displays with signs noting their creation by one of the city’s biggest float-making
studios. Tom Fox, whose wife, Madeline, painted a Spongebob Squarepants scene and made jellyfish from dollar store bowls, said he thinks a new tradition may have begun. “Even when Mardi Gras comes back, I think people are going to keep doing this,” he said. – AP
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saying the Fed’s interest rate policies aren’t well-suited to address speculation in the stock market. In addition, he said, “if you look at what’s really been driving asset prices in the last couple of months, it isn’t monetary policy. It’s expectations about vaccines and also fiscal policy. Those are the news items that have been driving asset values in recent months.” Powell also noted that the Fed is keeping rates low and buying bonds to support economic growth. Reversing those policies to offset potential bubbles in the stock market, he said, could harm the economy. “We don’t actually understand the 3 trade-off,” . 1- he said. n u S“Will it actually cause more damage, or will it help? I think that’s unresolved.” The Fed has signaled that it expects to keep its key short-term rate at a record low between zero and 0.25% through at least 2023. Earlier this month, Vice Chair Richard Clarida said he expects the Fed’s bond purchases to extend through the end of this year, which would mean continued downward pressure on longterm loan rates. The central bank
said it will continue airline tickets, hotel its bond purchasrooms, new clothes es until it makes and other goods and “substantial further services, the econprogress” toward its omy might accelergoals of maximum ate and annual inemployment and flation could surge stable 2% inflation. above the Fed’s 2% Powell said “it is target. likely to take some If many compatime” for that prog- nies don’t initially ress to be achieved. have the capacity to The Fed’s drive meet that demand, to keep long-term prices would pick rates low have up. helped hold down Powell, however, mortgage rates and dismissed those fueled home sales concerns, pointing and price increases. to several long-run Home prices, for factors that have example, surged 9% restrained inflain November comtion for more than pared with a year a decade, such as earlier, its fastest an aging populaincrease in more tion that tends to than six years. spend less and save The prospect of more, technological significant more developments that government rescue improve efficiency, aid and ongoing and overseas comvaccinations has petition. raised some concern “Frankly, we 1-3welcome somewhat that as Americans . n u eventually release higher inflation,” nS e p pent-up Odemand for Powell said. The
Fed believes that inflation sustainably at 2% guards against deflation, a drop in prices and wages. And since interest rates include expected levels of inflation, that gives the Fed more room to cut interest rates. “The kind of troubling inflation that people like me grew up with seems far away and unlikely.” The Fed adopted a framework last year that calls for inflation to average 2% over time. Given that inflation has mostly languished below that level since the Fed adopted it as a target in 2012, policymakers would have to let inflation run above 2% for some time to make New up for the years of Price!price below-target increases.
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straight months, and employers shed jobs in December for the first time since April. The job market has sputtered as the pandemic and colder weather have discouraged Americans from traveling, shopping, dining out or visiting entertainment venues. Retail sales have declined for three straight months. Yet the Fed still envisions a sharp rebound in the second half of the year as the virus is brought under control by vaccines and government-enacted rescue money spreads through the economy. Americans fortunate enough to have kept their jobs have stockpiled massive savings that suggest pentup demand that could be unleashed, n with a big lift toOpe the economy, once consumers increasingly feel safe about resuming their old spending patterns. Powell was pressed during the news conference on whether the Fed should respond to the recent speculative surge in the prices of some individual stocks, notably shares of GameStop, and whether that buying frenzy suggested a dangerous bubble in overall stock prices. Powell deflected the questions by
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he said. “Something like 9 million people remain unemployed as a consequence AP Economics Writers of the pandemic. That’s as many WASHINGpeople as lost their TON – Chair Jejobs at the peak of rome Powell said the global financial Wednesday that crisis and the Great the Federal Reserve Recession.” will keep pursuing The Fed stateits low-interest rate ment warned that policies until an the virus is posing economic recovery risks to the econois well underway, my. But the officials acknowledging that removed phrases the economy has from their previfaltered in recent ous statement in months. December that had The Fed said in a said the pandemic statement after its was pressuring latest policy meetthe economy in the ing that hiring and “near term” and economic growth posed risks “over had slowed, partic- the medium term.” ularly in industries Powell said that affected by the rag- language was reing pandemic, nomoved because the tably restaurants, Fed policymakers bars, hotels and see the pandemic others involving increasingly as a face-to-face public short-term risk that contact. will likely fade as The officials kept vaccines are distribtheir benchmark uted more widely. short-term rate But he also caupegged near zero tioned that the and said they would threat remains a keep buying Treaserious one, particsury and mortgage ularly because of bonds to restrain the potential harm longer-term borrow- from new strains of ing rates and supthe virus. port the economy. “We have not won Speaking at a this yet,” Powell news conference, said. “There’s nothPowell made clear ing more important his belief that the to the economy now economy will strug- than people getting gle in the coming vaccinated.” weeks and months, For now, the job until widespread market, in particvaccinations and ular, is faltering, government rescue with 9.8 million aid eventually fuel jobs still lost to a sustained rethe pandemic, bound. which erupted 10 “We’re a long way months ago. Hiring from full recovery,” has slowed for six
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National Conference of State Legislatures. The delay in the The U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to release of redistricting data could deliver the long-debe problematic for layed numbers states that have used for divvying deadlines this year up congressional for redrawing their seats by the end of districts. New JerApril, but a holdup on redistricting data sey and Virginia also have elections could disrupt several states’ abilities this year. “This is a subject to redraw their own of vigorous internal legislative maps debate right now,” ahead of upcoming elections, an agency said Styles, who official said Wednes- added the statistical agency isn’t saying day. for now when the The new goal redistricting data for finishing data will be ready. “The processing for the worst thing we apportionment could do is deliver numbers used for data that has quescongressional seats tion marks.” is now April 30. New Jersey was But a separate set prepared for such of data used for a scenario, with redrawing districts voters last fall apfor states and local proving a constitugovernments won’t be ready until after tional amendment that would address July in the most late-arriving relikely scenario, districting data. Kathleen Styles, a The constitutional top bureau official, amendment keeps said during a prethe current legislasentation for the
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tive districts for this year’s gubernatorial and legislative elections, provided a redistricting commission eventually redraws the districts by March 2022. New Jersey’s primary elections are in June. Virginia, which also has primary elections in June, is using a bipartisan commission for the first time this year to draw state districts. After a recent meeting, some commission members acknowledged the state would be unlikely to complete the process in time this year. What most likely will happen is candidates for the House of Delegates will run in the old districts this year, while state elections under the redrawn lines will be delayed until 2022 or 2023, said redistricting expert Brian Cannon.
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tion of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year. The deadline for turning in the apportionment numbers used for congressional seats has been a moving, and litigated, target since the coronavirus pandemic upended the Census Bureau’s once-adecade head count of every U.S. resident. The numbers were supposed to be turned in at the end of last year, but the Census Bureau requested until the end of April after the virus outbreak caused the bureau to suspend operations. The deadline switched back to Dec. 31 after President Donald Trump issued a directive seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. President Joe
Biden rescinded Trump’s order on his first day taking office last week. Government attorneys most recently said in a court case over census schedule and data quality that the numbers wouldn’t be ready until early March because the Census Bureau needed to fix data irregularities. “This April 30 schedule reflects the Census Bureau going back in and producing a realistic schedule,” Styles said Wednesday. Irregularities in the census data are nothing new, and other censuses from decades past have had them too, Styles said. “We have found anomalies. We will likely find more anomalies, and we will fix them as we find them,” Styles said. The return to the original April 30
extension requested by the Census Bureau comes as the statistical agency has new leadership with the change of administrations last week. Former Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham resigned last week after being criticized that he was acceding to Trump’s demand to produce citizenship information at the expense of data quality, and the agency’s deputy director was named interim chief. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has been picked by Biden to be Secretary of the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau. During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Raimondo promised to give the bureau more time for crunching the data, and she pledged to take politics out of the census.
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