by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, April 19.
- Conservatives Were Stunningly Wrong About Obamacare, New Report Finds (Gee, ain’t that a shocker? LOL)
- Clinton, Trump lead by double digits in polls ahead of N.Y. primary
- How New York will be won (“Nearly three-quarters of the Democratic vote will be cast in the New York City media market. But on the GOP side, most of the votes will be cast far from the city.”)
- Trump’s sleazy nomination path: He’s making his scheme more obvious — when all else fails, bribe and threaten your to way victory
- The chaos has already begun: GOP leaders are feuding as Donald Trump’s convention mayhem looms
- Why Bernie Sanders Is Wrong About the Deep South (“The typical Southern Democratic voter is neither white nor conservative. “)
- Donald Trump’s avenging angels: How the orange-haired monster has rewritten the history of American conservatism
- It may be too late for the GOP to stop Trump
- Donald Trump’s New York: Racially and Politically Polarized (“Trump does best among white voters who live near nonwhite populations.”)
- Mr. Sanders’s war on clean energy (I’m not supporting Sanders, but this is possibly THE stupidest editorial I’ve ever seen in the Washington Post. Natural gas is “clean energy?” Yeah, other than the super-dirty fracking and methane leakage…lol)
- The Dirty Way Texas Could Win Its Supreme Court Challenge To Obama’s Immigration Policies (“At least in the short term, a 4-4 split would not be a clean victory for Texas and the coalition of states it assembled to challenge the administration. But such a dirty outcome would still look very much like a victory for Texas.”)
- Pearl Jam Cancels 4/20 Raleigh, NC Concert in Opposition to HB2; Official Band Statement
- Ken Cuccinelli shows how to defend the GOP against Trump (The top-rated comment sums it up for me on this crap from Jennifer Rubin. “Ken Cuccinelli has no basis to criticize anyone’s thuggish tactics. This is the former Virginia Attorney General who supported subjecting women to a transvaginal ultrasound before an abortion. This is aptly described as State rape. He is also the climate change denier who tried his best to censor a University of Virginia scientist on the subject.”)
- Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort driving down pollution levels (Good, keep pressing on this!)
- Dominion gets one-year extension for Yorktown plant (“Dominion Virginia Power won a one-year extension that will allow it to keep running the coal-fired units at its Yorktown power plant. The company’s earlier exemption from new federal standards limiting the amount of mercury and other poisonous gases that coal- and oil-burning plants may emit expired”)
- Leonard Edloe: Don’t ask Va. pharmacists to break the law (“GOV. TERRY McAuliffe is proposing that pharmacists in Virginia and elsewhere secretly agree to assist with executions.”)
- Religious leaders call on Va. lawmakers to end death penalty
- Va. lawmakers rack up big bill for taxpayers in redistricting lawsuit (“The case raises questions about conflict of interest and public disclosure of emails.”)
- McEachin, Wittman, Brat hold financial edge in local congressional contests
- Editorial: Petersburg’s water woes demand resolution
- McAuliffe gets a new cabinet secretary (Uhhh…this happened last Friday, the Post is just getting around to reporting it now???)
- FTA ‘safety blitz’ uncovers more problems with Metro safety
- Portsmouth has a potential half-million-dollar problem, but who’s to blame? (“Former City Manager John Rowe got paychecks and retirement benefits at the same time for about 5 years, thanks to the way his contracts with Portsmouth were written. Now Council Mark Whitaker says Portsmouth owes the state retirement system over $480,000. The question now is: who is to blame?”)
- Norfolk Southern grant keeps jobs in Virginia, commerce secretary says
- Our view: Norfolk Southern incentive deal looks bad even if it’s not
- Roanoke City Council votes on land, incentives for Deschutes
- Ex-Fairfax police officer pleaders guilty to manslaughter in shooting death of John Geer
- Arlington homeowners likely to see tax rate cut, but tax bill will still rise
- Capitals dominate Flyers in Game 3 to take commanding series lead
- Another beautiful day in the DMV; Chance of rain later this week
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