by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, December 29.
- A Week Into Government Shutdown, Ire Turns to Fear for Federal Workers (“They’re really anxious now. What at first seemed like ho-hum political brinkmanship is looking more like a prolonged, punishing shutdown, more akin to the 27-day funding lapse in 1995 and 1996 than the blink-and-miss-it shutdowns earlier this year.”)
- The Memo: Trump veers between hardliner, dealmaker on shutdown
- New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury (“The agency declared that federal rules imposed by the Obama administration are too costly to justify. The proposal could set a precedent reaching far beyond mercury rules and would represent a victory for the coal industry.” Should just rename it the “Environmental Destruction Agency” under Trump and the Republicans.)
- As long as Matthew Whitaker is in place, the Russia investigation is in danger
- Trump: Give Me a Wall or I’ll Engineer a Recession
- Trump retreats from public view as shutdown continues over border wall fight (What a leader! LOL)
- Congress ends with Trump’s fight for wall, shutdown and GOP leaders hard to find
- Farmers risk loss of federal payments, loans, from shutdown (Thanks, Trump!)
- Trump-Russia: Republican probe of alleged FBI bias ends ‘with a whimper’ (Another failure and disgrace by Bob BADlatte.)
- The Justice Department’s Integrity Is at Stake (“William Barr’s nomination for attorney general is a threat to the Justice Department’s integrity”)
- Majority in poll want Trump impeached or censured
- Pediatricians Voice Concerns About Care Following Two ‘Needless’ Migrant Deaths
- Why the Bernie Movement Must Crush Beto O’Rourke (This actually makes me want to support Beto MORE.)
- Lawyer: McCarrick repeatedly touched youth during confession (“The Vatican’s sexual abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has expanded significantly after a man testified that the retired American archbishop sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11, including during confession.”)
- Year-End Reflections and Predictions From a Solar Veteran (“New dawn for new utility regulatory and business models” Except here in Virginia?)
- Don Lemon Mocks Trump’s Shutdown Rage: Sounds Like ‘A Pouting Child’
- After years of assailing Obamacare, some Republicans now fear the political fallout (Absolutely mindless.)
- Amos Oz, a Writer Who Loved the Dream of Israel and Charted Its Imperfect Reality (R.I.P.)
- Tucker Carlson’s Show Sheds Advertisers After Immigration Comments: Report (It’s appalling that anyone would advertise on that white supremacist’s show.)
- Pope Francis failed to handle the sex abuse crisis in 2018. Let’s hope 2019 is different.
- Democrats Vow Not to Seat Republican Who Claimed Victory in North Carolina (The dude almost certainly broke the law and should have lost the election.)
- Leon Panetta: Five lessons that never seem to be learned from shutting down the government
- These Are 50 Of The Biggest Fake News Hits On Facebook In 2018
- A power company mishap turns New York’s skyline blue (Just a reminder that energy efficiency, solar and wind do NOT do this.)
- AG Mark Herring Joins $575 Million Multistate Settlement with Wells Fargo
- A LOOK BACK: From the big election to potential changes to how we vote, a review of the Mercury’s 2018 political and government coverage
- EDITORIAL: What is Virginia’s Panama Canal?
- Retired Navy rear admiral set for uncharted waters as Virginia’s new top sea level rise official
- It’s time for the Washington region to invest in buses (And make them electric buses while we’re at it. Oh, and Arlington? Ditch the natural gas propaganda – that s*** is NOT “clean!”)
- Gov Northam Announces New Compensation Tool to Better Recruit VA Employees
- Will Virginia be next to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?
- Year in Review: Stories that defined 2018 in Central Virginia
- Chesapeake senior complex owner’s negligence led to deaths during fire, lawsuit says
- Richmond Animal Care and Control returns dog to N.J. man a year after it was stolen here
- Mainly mild into early next week
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