A NEW PERSPECTIVE Juneteenth a Community Planners Take Informational Federal Holiday
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☛ ☛ NTERPRISEt h e l i v i n g s t o n E Thursday, June 17, 2021 •Livingston,Montana•Vol.115 No.127 $1.00 ‘Obamacare’ survives: Court dismisses big challenge WASHINGTON (AP) — The include protections for people people have health insurance or nents of Obamacare hoped a Supreme Court preserved insur- with existing health conditions, a pay a penalty. Congress rendered majority of the justices would ance coverage for millions of range of no-cost preventive ser- that provision irrelevant in 2017 finally kill off the law they have Americans Thursday, rejecting vices, expansion of the Medicaid when it reduced the penalty to been fighting for more than a the third major challenge to the program that insures lower- zero. decade. national health care law known income people and health insur- The elimination of the penalty But the third major attack on as “Obamacare.” ance markets offering subsidized had become the hook that Texas the law at the Supreme Court The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left plans. and other GOP-led states, as well ended the way the first two did, the entire Affordable Care Act “The Affordable Care Act as the Trump administration, with a majority of the court intact in ruling that Texas, other remains the law of the land,” used to attack the entire law. rebuffing efforts to gut the law Republican-led states and two President Joe Biden said, salut- They argued that without the or get rid of it altogether. individuals had no right to bring ing the ruling and calling for mandate, a pillar of the law when Trump’s three appointees to the their lawsuit in federal court. building on the health-care law it was passed in 2010, the rest of Supreme Court — Justices Amy The Biden administration says 31 that was enacted when he was the law should fall, too. Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and AP million people have health insur- vice president. And with a more conservative The Supreme Court is seen in Washington ance because of the law. Also left in place is the law’s Supreme Court that includes June 8. The law’s major provisions now-toothless requirement that three Trump appointees, oppo- See ‘Obamacare,’ Page 6 Biden to sign bill making A NEW PERSPECTIVE Juneteenth a Community planners take informational federal holiday WASHINGTON (AP) — The flight around Paradise Valley United States is commemorating the end of slavery with a new fed- eral holiday. President Joe Biden is set to sign legislation into law Thursday to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday. The House voted 415-14 on Wednesday to send the bill to Biden. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to See Juneteenth, Page 6 AP Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., celebrate after Pelosi signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act that creates a new federal holiday to commemorate June 19 City offices Enterprise photos by Jason Bacaj The Yellowstone River, seen from a Cessna 210, winds through Paradise Valley in the southern half of Park County. closing on Friday By Jason Bacaj board member of the Montana Association By Lydia Ely Enterprise Staff Writer of Planners. Enterprise Staff Writer “You can really see the mixed uses on the land,” Moorman said after the flight. “It’s The City of Livingston will close ommunity planners and kind of like looking back in time, where you its offices on Friday, June 18 to one city commissioner got can see big agrarian lots, just big agricul- mark the first official celebration a bird’s eye view of the ture, open spaces. Then you see what was of Juneteenth, the federal holiday C for a long time to predominant new use, the to be signed into law today cele- Paradise Valley on an EcoFlight ranchettes. Then we saw Sage Lodge, we brating the end of slavery in the saw the big stage off Old Saloon, we flew United States. Thursday morning. over the golf course for Mountain Sky The actual day, June 19, is the They used the half-hour trip to see how Guest Ranch.” anniversary of the day that slaves closely tied development decisions in the During the flight, Moorman gave a run- were announced to be freed in city and county are to one another and to ning commentary of the land passing Texas, well over two years after the unique local environment of Yellow- Lawson Moorman, Park County planner, beneath the Cessna. He noted that Park the Emancipation Proclamation stone’s northern gateway. offers insight about county planning and County hasn’t seen a subdivision boom like was released, and months before The Livingston City Commission this development to passengers on a Thursday Gallatin County because the approximately the announcement was fully week formally adopted a new growth policy, morning EcoFlight tour of Paradise Valley. 4,000 vacant subdivided lots in Park County enforced. which has been in the works since 2019 and are still undeveloped. Those lots can be Currently, this is the only recog- involved about 60 hours of public meetings up their sleeves.” developed without any county approval or nition of the holiday planned by to complete. Park County officials are in the EcoFlight is a nonprofit based in Aspen, permitting. the city, according to a city email. midst of gathering public input for a Draft Colorado, which exists to educate and advo- Because of this, one of the best indicators The City Manager’s Office has Conflict Mitigation Zoning District. cate for wild lands and wildlife habitat by of growth in the county is septic permits. informed the County Commission “It was a really good chance to culminate providing an aerial perspective from small Park City-County Health Department and the state offices of the city years of public process and input,” said aircraft. The Thursday morning flights records show that the number of such per- offices’ intent to close. Michelle Uberuaga, executive director of were on a Cessna 210 single-engine plane mits issued has grown by more than 46% Regarding future closures, they the Park County Environmental Council, piloted by Bruce Gordon, president of between 2017 and 2020, increasing from 104 will be following the guidance of which helped coordinate the flights with EcoFlight. the Office of Personnel Manage- EcoFlight. “And it sets the stage for what The first of two morning flights was guid- ment. comes next. Now it’s time for people to roll ed by Lawson Moorman, county planner and See Perspective, Page 6 House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq War authorization WASHINGTON (AP) — The Dem- Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia, voted against the continuing threat posed Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, 2002 authorization, or AUMF, was a ocratic-led House, with the backing against it. by Iraq” and to “enforce all rele- said he agreed the 2002 authoriza- mistake, and some Republicans of President Joe Biden, passed leg- Supporters said repeal would not vant Security Council resolutions tion was outdated, but he argued agree the authority should be taken islation Thursday to repeal the 2002 affect U.S. military operations regarding Iraq.” that Congress should not repeal it off the books. Some lawmakers say authorization for use of military around the world, but could prevent “Repeal is crucial because the without also approving a replace- the 2001 resolution to fight terror- force in Iraq, a step supporters said current and future presidents from executive branch has a history of ment. ism, passed after the Sept. 11 was necessary for Congress to reas- relying on it to conduct unrelated stretching the 2002 AUMF’s legal “We should not encourage any attacks, should be reexamined as sert its constitutional duty to weigh military actions. The White House authority,” said Rep. Gregory president to go it alone without well. in on matters of war while detrac- says there are no ongoing military Meeks, the Democratic chairman of Article I congressional authoriza- Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of tors worried that it would embolden activities reliant solely upon the the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tion,” McCaul said. California, the bill’s sponsor, said militia or terror groups operating in 2002 authorization. tee. “It has already been used as Action on the repeal measure fol- that 87% of the current members of the region. The 2002 authorization was justification for military actions lows years of debate over whether the House were not in Congress in The repeal legislation was passed directed against the Saddam Husse- against entities that had nothing to Congress has ceded too much of its 2002 and that the authorization for overwhelmingly by a vote of 268- in regime, authorizing the “neces- do with Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist war-making authority to the White military force passed at that time 161. Forty-nine Republicans voted sary and appropriate” use of force dictatorship simply because such House. Many lawmakers, particu- bears no correlation to the threats for the bill. Only one Democrat, to “defend U.S. national security entities were operating in Iraq.” larly Democrats, say passage of the the nation faces today. Page 2, Livingston Enterprise Thursday, June 17, 2021 OBITUARIES BRIEFS Randall Brett McQuay • ASPEN is sponsoring the Westbringinginmorevisi- MOWteam.MOWnowdeliv- • Automatic Transmission event “Aroma Essentials” tors than ever. Volunteers ersonMondays,Wednesdays Specialists and the Livings- RandallBrettMcQuay,72,ofLivingston,Montana,passed with Dalonda Rockafellow at canalsohelpwithotherocca- and Fridays. On Mondays ton Area Chamber of Com- awayFeb.23,2021athishome.