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What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.
April 25, 1901: âJacob Kerner, ex-chief of the fire department, is again in the service of the city, the board of public safety at a meeting held Wednesday night, appointing him building inspector and supervisor of fire escapes. He will also look after the wires and electrical mechanisms of the police and fire departments. The office which Mr. Kerner has been appointed to fill has not hitherto existed in South Bend. Inspector Kerner will enter upon his duties at once.â â The South-Bend Daily Tribune
Trump Awards Medal of Freedom to US Rep. Jim Jordan
President Donald Trump has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
The Medal of Freedom, established by President John F. Kennedy, is awarded by presidents to people who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
Jordan, who has served the people of Ohio’s 4th Congressional District for 14 years, helped uncover the gun-running program known as “Fast and Furious,” which sent AK-47s to Mexican drug cartels during the Obama administration, the White House said in a statement.
Richard Thornburgh, Former Governor and Attorney General, Dies at 88
He steered Pennsylvania through the Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown and led the Justice Department under Reagan and the first President Bush.
Richard Thornburgh at the State Capitol in Harrisburg in December 1978, when he was the governor-elect of Pennsylvania. He was the only Republican to serve two successive terms as the state’s governor (1979 to 1987).Credit.Paul Vathis/Associated Press
Dec. 31, 2020
Dick Thornburgh, a two-term Republican governor of Pennsylvania who coped with America’s worst nuclear power meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 and later served as United States attorney general under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, died on Thursday at a retirement home in Oakmont, Pa., outside Pittsburgh. He was 88.
Again and again in Donald Trump’s Washington, it’s about who you know.
That was the case Wednesday night with the President’s latest wave of pardons as he prepares to leave the White House. Most everyone on the list either had a connection to the Big Man themselves or friends in high places willing to make their case.
In that sense, Wednesday’s list was much the same as Tuesday’s before it, accompanied by a White House statement chock full of Republican congressmen and television stars vouching for their friends or favored causes.
But as Trump progressed toward Christmas, the names got bigger: Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared; former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and key confidante Roger Stone, both Russia probe cases; Margaret Hunter, whose husband former Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) Trump had pardoned the day prior.