by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, February 22. Also, check out The Simpsons
- Fall of the House of Bush: How last name and Donald Trump doomed Jeb
- Sanders has the resources and a plan to go the distance, but will it matter? (Unlikely.)
- GOP candidates chart different paths ahead of Super Tuesday
- The moment of truth: We must stop Trump (“The candidate presents a threat to our democracy.” Not just to our democracy; to our nature as a civilized society.)
- Editorial: Another month, another climate record (The patient is very sick, we need to stop poisoning it immediately.)
- Kasich, Sanders to campaign in Virginia
- Donald Trump’s rageful white cult: Race, fear and the GOP front-runner’s slick manipulations (“Fox News and a radicalized GOP created Trumpmania. They must slay it before it consumes us all”)
- Good riddance, Bush Dynasty! Why Jeb’s disastrous campaign is a fitting end to a poisonous history
- The right’s SCOTUS unreality: Republicans are justifying obstructionism by just making stuff up
- Trump questions Rubio’s eligibility
- Editorial: Virginia Senate sends a message on charter schools
- Va. bill to restrict abortion fizzled. Here’s why abortion foes are oddly upbeat. (These people are relentless.)
- Va. lawmakers: Pay raise for teachers, but no Medicaid expansion (No Medicaid expansion=huge #FAIL)
- Virginia House, Senate back K-12 funding boost in $100 billion budget
- Super Tuesday is coming. So are the candidates.
- Stepping down from the ledge of solitary confinement (“A bill in Virginia posits common-sense reforms to a barbaric practice.”)
- Editorial: We don’t need secret police in Virginia
- Botetourt County could get money to woo manufacturer, state budget proposal says
- What happens if state is unable to execute Ricky Gray?
- Shyly but surely, harbor seals have warmed up to Virginia waters
- Acting Prince William County executive proposes $2.9 billion budget
- Loudoun County administrator presents budget plan, recommends small tax hike
- Cool sunshine today, stormy midweek, then colder
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