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2016 C.E.
Portland's CEO pay surtax, passed by the City Council in December 2016, became the first U.S. tax tied directly to corporate pay ratios. Companies paying chief executives more than 100 times their median worker owed a 10 percent surcharge on their business license tax, with steeper rates above 250:1. A small city turning federal disclosure data into local consequence.
2016 C.E.
At Standing Rock in December 2016, thousands of water protectors camped on the North Dakota plains erupted in cheers when the U.S. Army Corps denied the easement to drill the Dakota Access Pipeline under Lake Oahe. The pause proved temporary, but the movement brought tribal treaty rights and the phrase "water is life" into wider American conversation.
2016 C.E.
Psilocybin therapy took a remarkable step forward in 2016, when two clinical trials at Johns Hopkins and NYU found that a single guided session eased depression and anxiety in roughly 80% of cancer patients, with relief lasting at least six months. The results marked psychedelic research's careful return to mainstream science after decades of dormancy.
2016 C.E.
Catherine Cortez Masto made history on November 8, 2016, winning Nevada's Senate seat and becoming the first Latina ever elected to the U.S. Senate. The former state attorney general, recruited by retiring Harry Reid, rode strong early-voting turnout in Clark County to victory. After 227 years, the chamber finally had a seat it had never held before.
2016 C.E.
In November 2016, Oregon voters elected Kate Brown governor, making her the first openly LGBT person — and first openly bisexual person — elected governor of any U.S. state. Brown had already spent decades in Oregon politics, winning the Secretary of State race in 2008. Her victory offered lasting proof that identity alone would not disqualify a candidate at the highest levels.
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