by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 11. As for that image, h/t to Ben Tribbett for finding it and posting it on Facebook!
- Sorry, Feds: Kids Can Sue Over Climate Negligence, Judge Says (Good news, let’s hope this case keeps moving forward. Love these kids!)
- Paul Ryan is not a unifier: Don’t let the speaker’s new “ads” fool you into thinking he’s actually a moderate (Nope, he’s an extremist, sad to say.)
- Portrait of Trump’s giving shows free golf, but no personal cash (Pathetic as always from this narcissistic sociopath.)
- Turning back time (“Some Southern states codify their ignorance about transgender people.”)
- Paul Ryan, a Mirage Candidate, Wages a Parallel Campaign
- How an Anti-Vax Scientist Helped Inspire the Planned Parenthood Videos (Ee gads, this just gets worse and worse.)
- Bob Woodward Says Questions Remain Unanswered About Clinton’s Email, Doesn’t Say What Those Questions Are (I used to have tremendous respect for Woodward, but at this point…not so much.)
- WATCH: Ken Burns explains how America has always been a racist country
- Obama explains Trump’s rise to Fox host Chris Wallace: ‘Republicans have their own TV station’
- Trump slams Boston Globe for fake front page (Actually, I thought the Globe understated how bad things would be under “President Trump.”)
- Gov. McAuliffe has until midnight to veto bill allowing state to choose electric chair for executions (This isn’t a close call: VETO!)
- U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is taking a hike up to the summit of Stony Man Trail to celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service
- After getting ‘tail whopped’ in earlier sales tax fight, Mark Warner has no plans to push hike for Metro (“The senator from Virginia warns of a “semi-death-spiral” if Congress cuts funding for the troubled transit agency, but declined to endorse idea of a regional sales tax to buttress the aging system.” #LEADERSHIPFAIL)
- Surovell: Virginia deserves hearings on planned health insurance mergers
- Passing judgment — and undermining education (“A Va. lawmaker insults a teacher who stood up for challenging literature in her classroom.”)
- Bond deal allows General Assembly Building, new projects to proceed
- Editorial: Terry McAuliffe, governor of good cheer
- Whatever happened to… the light rail route to Norfolk Naval Station?
- Petersburg mayor says Va. Sen. Dance made political threats against him (“State Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance, D-Petersburg, told her hometown mayor in a personal phone conversation in February that she would work to cut all federal and state funding for the city if the mayor failed to rally the City Council around a motion to fire the city’s nonelected leadership.”)
- Out with the cold, and in with more typical mid-April weather
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