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What the insurrection means for politics and democracy | Michael Smolens Jan 11, 2021

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The U-T's political columnist explains how the events in Washington have affected our country.

Read his latest column: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2021-01-08/column-reps-jacobs-and-issa-profiles-in-courage-and-cowardice

Front-page editorial condemns insurrection, President Trump | Matthew T. Hall Jan 07, 2021

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Jan. 6, 2021, will be remembered as the day American democracy died. Now the revival is up to all of us.

The peaceful transfer of U.S. presidential power dating back to George Washington and John Adams more than two centuries ago ended with Donald Trump’s incitement of an insurrection Wednesday when hundreds of his supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. This domestic terrorism was meant to prevent the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive victory in the Electoral College, and it left at least one person dead — a San Diego woman — and several people injured. The chaos cemented Trump’s reputation as the worst president of all time. But it will also cement the ruined reputations of shameless cheerleaders who put party over country for a president for whom lying came as naturally as breathing.

Read the editorial: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/2021-01-06/editorial-the-domestic-terrorism-trump-incited-at-the-u-s-capitol-cemented-him-as-the-worst-president-of-all-time

Questions remain in alleged murder of Butterfly Farms owner | Pam Kragen Jan 06, 2021

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Monday would have been Tom Merriman’s first day back at work at Butterfly Farms. Instead, the nearly 8-year-old education and research nonprofit in Encinitas is preparing to move forward without its co-founder and president.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/encinitas/story/2021-01-05/butterfly-farms-in-encinitas-will-carry-on-despite-co-founders-murder

BLM activists fear they missed the moment in 2020. Will 2021 be different? | Alex Riggins Jan 06, 2021

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Ten days after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, more than 2,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown San Diego, North Park, Hillcrest and Balboa Park in a huge demonstration organized by a nameless collective of young, Black San Diegans.

Earlier that same week, law enforcement leaders across the county had forcefully denounced the actions of the Minneapolis officers in Floyd’s death and banned their deputies and officers from using the carotid restraint, a controversial neck hold they’d previously resisted giving up.

San Diego police Chief David Nisleit tweeted, “Our profession must do better.” Then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer, voiced support for a stronger, independent police oversight board. District Attorney Summer Stephan committed to increasing transparency in law enforcement and de-escalation training for officers and deputies.

With protests like the June 4 march — the largest demonstration in San Diego County following Floyd’s Memorial Day death — applying pressure to elected officials and law enforcement leaders, quick and meaningful change seemed possible, maybe even inevitable.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-01-03/did-2020s-summer-of-protests-san-diego-over-death-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-change-san-diego-policing

Who gets the vaccine next? | Greg Moran Jan 04, 2021

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As state leaders wrestle with plans for who gets vaccinated and in what order, they have received hundreds of comments asking for priority in line

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2021-01-03/from-across-the-state-individual-and-groups-ask-for-priority-in-vaccine-rollout

Union-Tribune documentary: "Missing in Mexico" | Wendy Fry, Alejandro Tamayo Dec 31, 2020

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More than 79,000 people have disappeared in that country, the vast majority since 2006 when former president Felipe Calderón launched Mexico’s war on drugs. Tijuana, a sprawling metropolis of 2.1 million people, became a front line as cartels fought to secure lucrative trafficking routes into the United States. More recently, neighborhoods on the city’s outskirts have been drawn in as low-level drug dealers fight and die for the right to sell methamphetamine on local street corners.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2020-12-30/missing-mexico-voices

Watch the documentary: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/5akz3ztqcvq-123

Looking back at the military's 2020 | Andrew Dyer Dec 30, 2020

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San Diego based service members faced a number of challenges in 2020. Military reporter Andrew Dyer walks us through this eventful year.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2020-12-30/2020-a-year-of-travails-and-tragedy-for-san-diego-military-community

What the Padres trading spree means for 2021 | Kevin Acee Dec 29, 2020

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A series of key trades shows that Padres' GM AJ Preller plans on making the team a serious contender next year.

Returned IV: How can the U.S. asylum system be reimagined? | Kate Morrissey Dec 28, 2020

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The U.S. has always resisted protecting refugees at its border. The incoming Biden administration will have to decide whether to break with that past.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2020-12-27/how-could-asylum-system-be-reimagined

The rest of the series: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/returned

Previous episodes:

Returned Part III: A legitimate fear of death doesn’t always matter in the US asylum system | Kate Morrissey https://art19.com/shows/the-san-diego-news-fix/episodes/83753631-407a-4ea8-b80f-1d5e74b0bbea

Returned Part II: Who gets asylum? | Kate Morrissey https://art19.com/admin/series/eda62611-1093-4bef-a541-36a48c7289b5/content/episodes/e9541525-b629-4b2a-9d4f-05c5276907a8

Returned Part 1: What it takes to make a case under the US asylum system https://art19.com/admin/series/eda62611-1093-4bef-a541-36a48c7289b5/content/episodes/a2fb8dc5-8590-4c6c-89c0-2fd0f6fe9a67

Here's why cruise ships are docked at the port right now | Lori Weisberg Dec 24, 2020

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Barred from sailing for the last nine months because of the pandemic, several cruise ships are making their way to San Diego this month, but don’t expect to see thousands of passengers boarding or disembarking from the ocean liners.

Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2020-12-23/cruise-ships-return-to-san-diego-after-long-absence-because-of-covid-but-no-passengers-allowed

Also read: ‘We called it Voyage of the Damned’: Days of despair on the Grand Princess

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