Monday News: Sea-Level Rise Far Worse Than Previously Thought; GMU “becomes a favorite of Charles Koch”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 4.

• Trump Says Kasich “Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Run” Because “He’s Taking My Votes” (Uh huh…)
• Battle between Trump and Cruz in Wisconsin could reshape GOP race
• Internal memo reveals Trump campaign’s mounting fury with its critics (Aw, the poor wittle fascist. LOL)
• This time it really is the end of Trump. Really.
• Sanders defends not releasing last 8 years of tax returns: ‘My wife does them’ and we’ve been a bit busy
• How Ted Cruz could actually still beat Donald Trump (“Brace yourselves, America, because this year’s Republican National Convention is going to be a doozy”)
• They can only punish the woman: This is the truth about enforcing illegal abortion — charging the doctor is just a right-wing myth
• They all look like Chuck Todd: The lack of diversity on shows like “Meet the Press” is just embarrassing
• The GOP’s (other) convention nightmare (“Republicans, already girding for their most tumultuous convention in decades, now have another fight brewing: a divisive battle over gay marriage on the party’s official national platform.”)
• John Oliver pounds Donald Trump’s unfathomable ignorance about nuclear weapons
• GO Virginia isn’t going past McAuliffe
• George Mason University becomes a favorite of Charles Koch (GMU becoming the equivalent of “Liberty” or “Regent.” Selling their soul for money in this case.)
• Editorial: Herring the Activist AG (Gotta love it; according to the Republican Times-Disgrace, working to enforce the law and protect Virginia from climate change is “activist.” I guess they’d prefer that fossil fuel companies get away with fraud and ecocide.)
• Editorial: Sea level rise twice as severe as previously thought (“FOUR FEET of sea level rise by 2100 would mean massive disruption in Hampton Roads. Whole blocks would be under water in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Roads would close. Blue-sky floods — which occur with regularity now — would happen all the time.”)
• Why the reality of sea-level rise could also be an opportunity for Hampton Roads
• Hospital and jail staff looked the other way as a young man starved to death in Va. (“A young mentally ill man wasted away in jail on a $5 shoplifting charge as officials looked the other way.”)
• Our view: Differences start to emerge among Roanoke City Council candidates
• Pr. William supervisors deadlocked over proposed real estate tax increase
• Buchanan County put faith in Trump (This is beyond absurd and pathetic.)
• A mild Monday turns blustery tonight in week of topsy-turvy temperatures