by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, March 7. Also, check out the full Democratic debate last night.
- Nancy Reagan dies at 94; first lady was a defining figure of the 1980s
- Democrats Clinton and Sanders pounce on Flint water crisis — and each other
- The GOP vulgarians
- Inside the Rubio meltdown: Frustration and perceived blunders
- Some in GOP starting to see Cruz as best alternative to Trump (Ee gads.)
- The #NeverTrump farce: Hypocritical Marco Rubio shows how Republicans will learn to like Donald Trump (“The conservative anti-Donald Trump movement will wilt when faced with the prospect of President Hillary Clinton “)
- The Democratic Race Is All But Over. But Bernie Won’t Go Quietly. (Sanders wasn’t at his best last night, if you ask me, either on style or substance.)
- Bernie Sanders’ ghetto remark during Flint Democratic debate draws social media criticism (This was possibly Sanders’ worst moment from all the Democratic debates. “Then you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor.” Uhhhh…among other problems with that answer, has he ever heard of Appalachia?)
- Clinton, Sanders both say they can beat Trump during feisty Michigan debate
- STUDY: How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate Change In 2015 (“ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox collectively spent five percent less time covering climate change in 2015, even though there were more newsworthy climate-related events than ever before, including the EPA finalizing the Clean Power Plan, Pope Francis issuing a climate change encyclical, President Obama rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, and 195 countries around the world reaching a historic climate agreement in Paris. The decline was primarily driven by ABC…” These networks are all a f’ing disgrace.)
- Who Won the Debate? Hillary Clinton Is Given the Edge (Definitely.)
- Krugman: When Fallacies Collide (“The good news is that there was a real policy debate going on within the G.O.P. last week. The bad news is that it was junk economics on both sides.”)
- Bonds are ‘biggest mystery’ as General Assembly considers budget
- Editorial: General Assembly wins and losses (I’d say this session gets an “F” on almost every level. Just pathetic.)
- Nancy Reagan had an impact on Virginia politics (“Twelve days before the election, the former first lady blasted North in an appearance with Charlie Rose of PBS at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. She said North had lied about her husband, President Ronald Reagan, in the Iran-Contra affair.”)
- Va. lawmakers set for hectic final week
- Bill could sideline season-long fantasy football in Virginia, open up state to online gambling
- A huge burst of springlike warmth this week
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