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St. Louis County Councilwoman Lisa Clancy, shown at her 2019 swearing-in, won another year as council chairwoman Tuesday. But some are hoping for a redo vote of sorts after Councilwoman-elect Shalonda Webb didn t get to vote.
A divided St. Louis County Council gave Chairwoman Lisa Clancy another year in her post Tuesday, amid an outcry over an outgoing lawmaker getting to vote on the matter instead of the person who defeated her last year.
Backers of the reelection of Clancy, an ally of St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, contend this unusual situation is an unintended, but required, consequence of a charter change. But three Page detractors say the election of new leadership was illegal and an undemocratic slap in the face to voters of the north St. Louis County-based 4th District.
Parliamentary maneuvers in the Pennsylvania State Senate briefly made national news on Tuesday when a Republican majority voted to eject large, bald Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman from the job of presiding over the chamber. The move apparently led to some yelling and a brief period in which both Fetterman and the new Republican presiding officer were purporting to be in charge.
Fetterman eventually left and legislative business continued, but the fundamental issue that caused the dispute has not yet been resolved, which is that the Republican majority is refusing to acknowledge the state-certified electoral victory of 45
th District Democratic incumbent Jim Brewster. The state’s final official tally has Brewster beating his opponent, Nicole Ziccarelli, by 69 votes. But Ziccarelli is suing in federal court to overturn the results because one of the counties in which the 45
Here are 202 things that happened in 2020
Do you remember them all?
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2020 in review (Getty Images / WSLS 10)
At times it felt like we got a year’s worth of news in just a month (March, we’re looking at you).
2020 certainly had its ups and downs, so before we head into 2021, take a scroll with us through the last year in news.
January
Jan. 3 - The United States killed Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.
Jan. 8 - A plane with Ukraine International Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff in Tehran, Iran on January 8, killing all 176 people on board the Boeing 737-800, according to Ukrainian officials.
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North Country representatives are criticizing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to close three state prisons, including one in Dannemora and another in Watertown.
Cuomo announced plans to close the Gowanda and Watertown Correctional facilities and the Clinton Annex in 90 days. The Annex is part of the larger Clinton Correctional facility. 115th District Democratic state Assemblyman D. Billy Jones, a former corrections officer, calls the move a kick in the gut to the region. “I’m not happy with this decision and to do this to these employees and to these families right now I’m just disgusted by it.”