by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 1.
- Trump’s Approval Number Nose-Dives, Dems’ Blue Wave Might Be Building: IBD/TIPP Poll (“Just 36% say they approve of the job President Trump is doing, a 5-point drop from last month, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll. Fifty six percent disapprove of Trump’s job performance, up from 53% the month before.” My question: what on earth is wrong with that 36%?)
- Donald Trump Impeachment Support More Than 10 Points Higher Than Approval Rating: New Poll
- Donald Trump’s approval rating sinks to lowest of his presidency
- Trump Wins a Round on NAFTA, and America Loses the Trade War (“If Trump wants to take down China in the trade wars, the NAFTA talks won’t help.”)
- Don’t be so sure Mueller will back off before midterms
- Trump to advance trade deal with Mexico after NAFTA talks with Canada falter (What a fiasco.)
- Trade talks with Canada will restart next week as Trump seeks a deal in 90 days
- John McCain Lies in State in the Capitol: ‘We Lost a Good One’ (It’s appalling that disgraces like Mike Pence, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell spoke at this ceremony.)
- John McCain Farewell to Be Led by Two Presidents — but Not That One
- Showdown — and potential shutdown — loom over border funding
- Aretha Franklin’s Funeral: Stars, Dignitaries and Fans Honor the Queen of Soul
- If Democrats Win Midterms, Trump Could Be Planning a November Surprise
- Trump officials withhold 100K pages of Kavanaugh’s records (Unacceptable.)
- Neo-Nazi robocall targets the man who could be Florida’s first Black governor (“The group responsible for the calls also urged people to murder immigrants, following Mollie Tibbetts’ death in Iowa this month.” Yep, Trump’s America.)
- Rest in peace, Lindsey Graham (“Graham remains alive and well, but after serving for two decades as Robin to McCain’s Batman, Graham buried whatever remained of his own reputation for iconoclasm even before his partner’s funeral.”)
- Manafort associate paid Trump inauguration $50,000 in Ukrainian cash (“Sam Patten pleads guilty under Foreign Agents Registration Act. Republican once worked with Cambridge Analytica”)
- John McCain May Have Given Everyone the Last Laugh (“The president’s disapproval ratings are reaching lunar orbit.”)
- Trump just lost his best chance to kill DACA this year (“A conservative judge in Texas refuses to issue an injunction, so unauthorized immigrants currently protected from deportation will still be allowed to renew.”)
- American Cities Lose 36 Million Trees a Year. But There’s a Radical New Plan to Save Them. (We need to be planting trees like crazy, not losing them!)
- The Village Voice ceases publication after 63 years (“The Pulitzer prize-winning New York alternative weekly is going out of business because of intractable financial problems”)
- California is this close to its boldest energy target yet: 100% clean electricity (Other states should follow California’s example. Hello Virginia?)
- Vice President Mike Pence quotes Bible in response to being called ‘Christian supremacist’ (Ha ha.)
- Trump’s move to scrap federal employee raises could damage the GOP as it defends House majority (“A high concentration of federal workers lives in some competitive House districts in Virginia, which abuts Washington, D.C.”)
- ‘I believe Mueller has much more’: A Q&A with Sen. Mark Warner
- Va. lawmaker: Rockwool factory ‘could cause irreparable harm’ to economy, health (Hahaha, Barbara Comstock, who has horrendously bad ratings from environmental groups and who hasn’t said a word about the Atlantic Coast or Mountain Valley Pipeline. She’s completely full of crap.)
- Editorial: Will there be a blue wave west of the Blue Ridge? (“If there really is a ‘blue wave’ in Virginia this fall, Stewart will be helping making it a little bit bigger.”)
- Hill staffers: Spanberger’s records released because employee misunderstood request (It’s all very, very strange.)
- For Trump-acolyte Corey Stewart, the president has finally crossed a line (Hahaha, what a joke!)
- Schapiro: The staid of the race
- While other divisions see student populations sink, Chesapeake’s is soaring
- Energy from offshore wind turbines could land at Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach
- SCC estimates cost of new electric utility law at almost $5.6 billion
- $7.5 million headed to far Southwest Va. to repurpose mine land for economic development
- Last year it was J.E.B. Stuart Elementary. This year, it honors Obama.
- Prosecutor says deadly police shooting of Marcus-David Peters was justifiable homicide; report shows THC and Ritalin found in his system
- Video shows Portsmouth jail staff did not regularly check on inmate who died
- More showers and storms around today, and heating up ahead
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