by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, August 30.
- After record rains in Texas, Harvey now menaces Louisiana
- Even in visiting ravaged Texas, Trump keeps the focus on himself (As Ralph Northam correctly calls him, Trump is a “narcissistic maniac.”)
- Harvey should be the turning point in fighting climate change
(Just as Sandy should have been…) - Harvey is a global warming issue — and a test for Donald Trump’s denialism (“Scientists knew that dangerous storms like Harvey were coming. Maybe it’s time to start listening, Mr. President”)
- Houston is paying the price for public officials’ ignorance (“Scientists’ warnings were discounted as ‘anti-development.'” Houston is a sprawling, impermeably paved mess.)
- “What a crowd, what a turnout”: Trump boasts of crowd size during Hurricane Harvey tour (What an asshole!)
- Bruni: The Waters Swell. So Does Trump’s Ego.
- Republicans’ empty words against Trump (“The GOP will perish if its members don’t rein in the president.”)
- Toll on Energy Industry Exposes a Vulnerability (“Supply disruptions and environmental damage raise questions about the concentration of refineries and chemical plants along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.” We need to move to CLEAN energy immediately. F*** fossil fuels.)
- Mattis Freezes Trump’s Transgender Ban Pending Further Review by People Other Than the President
- Harvey Exposes Trump’s Empathy Deficit (Trump is a monster.)
- Trump at war with himself over ‘Dreamers’ (Did I mention that Trump is a monster? Oh yes I did.)
- Gorka: Trump ‘isolated,’ GOP leaders living ‘fantasy illusion’
- There Is So Much Wrong With This Sentence in The New York Times (“People will do anything for a unifying Daddy in the White House.” It’s disgusting.)
- Trump Looks Likely to End Protections for Dreamers. Here’s What Would Happen Next. (“Hundreds of thousands of people could face deportation or a return to the shadows.”)
- Trump has showed the absolute minimum amount of empathy for Houston victims (“But he’s really excited about the record-setting rainfall!” He’s like an emotionally stunted adolescent.)
- Rex Tillerson just took the State Department another step back from acting on climate change (Shocker coming from the guy who headed a company which spent millions of dollars denying climate science and delaying climate action. He should be in serious trouble for that, not at the freakin’ State Department!)
- Trump uses natural disaster to promote his hats
- The Arpaio Pardon Has Plenty Of Precedents … That Got Other Presidents In Trouble
- McEachin Tours a Fire Station, Talks Environment, Russia
- Charlottesville beating suspect to be extradited to Virginia
- DHS warned authorities of potential violence ahead of Charlottesville rally: report
- Charlottesville fits in with Trump’s nightmare America
- Former James City County Board of Supervisors Chair to Challenge Rep. Scott Taylor in VA-02 (“Mary Jones, former James City County Board of Supervisors Chair and staunch Trump supporter, has announced that she will challenge incumbent GOP Congressman Scott Taylor in Virginia’s Second Congressional District.”)
- Virginia attorney general election campaign heats up with pre-Labor Day attack ad (“Gloves come off in the Herring-Adams matchup.”)
- Gillespie hires Trump operative who believes country is on verge of civil war and effort to take down Confederate monuments is a communist plot (Gillespie might seem like a nice, aw-shucks kinda guy, but look at who he associates with!)
- Schapiro: A last link to a long-past Virginia (“Putney, who died this past Saturday at 89, was one of the last examples of the flinty conservatism once common in Virginia: tight with taxpayer dollars but protective of voter-pleasing pork, suspicious of the activist federal government that opened doors for women and minorities, and insistent that the people’s business — though often messy — be conducted in a businesslike manner.”)
- Bay cleanup gets $6.7M from EPA
- Virginia Candidate Kathy Tran and Her Passion for Public Service
- ‘We don’t pretend this is over’: After Charlottesville, colleges expect trouble
- Democratic-backed candidate elected to Fairfax County School Board
- Aftershocks and finger-pointing continue to roil Charlottesville, weeks after white supremacist rally
- Peninsula drenched by heavy rainfall, minor flooding Tuesday
- Editorial: Students’ return shows region’s higher ed strength
- Loudoun County, Sheriff Chapman seek to have $6M lawsuit dismissed
- Charlottesville launching campaign to revive its image
- Loudoun Sheriff’s Office seeking information on potential witnesses to Confederate statue vandalism
- Richmond schools still short on teachers a week before first day
- Back into the nice-weather groove through tomorrow; Harvey remnants complicate weekend forecast
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