Wednesday News: Trump Selects “White Nationalist” as Delegate; Cooch Weighs in (Nonsensically as Usual)

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, May 11.

• Global Warming Seen as Lit Match in Northern Fires
• Spurning Unity, Trump Claims ‘Mandate’ to Be Provocative
• Trump Selects a White Nationalist Leader as a Delegate in California (“Meet William Johnson, head of the American Freedom Party.”)
• Sanders wins in West Virginia, extending race against Clinton
• The growing stress on the world’s water (“The World Bank warns that limiting emissions will not be enough.”
• Friedman: Trump’s Miss Universe Foreign Policy
• Meet The Men And Women Behind Donald Trump (Perhaps even worse and more disturbing than Trump himself are the loony-tunes, bigots and thugs around him.)
• Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Zombie Accusations: Private Servers & Emails
• Against Trump, Clinton should resist the temptation of triangulation (“Instead of tacking to the center, she should win on a bold platform — and move the center to the left.”)
• Paul Ryan is stuck in a Trump trap (“Lining up with Trump is a major risk to Ryan’s brand — but not endorsing the presumptive nominee could alienate the grassroots.”)
• Clinton wins Nebraska Democratic primary
• Herring issues opinion on discrimination
• Editorial: Susquehanna aside, good news about bay (Good, but still a long way to go, and we ALL bear a responsibility with the choices we make.)
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: One city’s gain is another’s loss
• Schapiro: A voting-rights initiative even GOP can back – and did
• Cuccinelli says Trump must become a consistent conservative to unite GOP (There’s no way he can do that, after years of taking every position on every issue.)
• As the courts consider lawsuits over transgender bathroom use, schools take a cautious approach
• Metro’s dangerous complicity (“Officials reacted to an explosion last Thursday by doing nothing — for hours.”)
• Dominion Faces Shareholder Vote Today on Financial Risks of “Most Expensive Nuclear Reactor in US”
• Fairfax County may put meals tax on November ballot(“Board of Supervisors will vote in June on whether to propose a 4 percent additional tax on restaurant meals.”)
• Peter Chang’s restaurant will fire the master chef’s daughter, three others after servers delivered insults to customers (Seems a bit harsh for this incident we first reported here on Sunday)
• Shenandoah National Park cleanup continues after fire
• Roanoke County supervisors ask last-minute broadband questions
• Portsmouth, Virginia Beach only Hampton Roads cities left to agree to deal with regional trash authority
• Will Richmond’s Donald Trump prevail? (“We won’t name any names, but the leading contender’s name starts with M and rhymes with gorrissey.”)
• Short ballots, confusing lines for June 14 primaries on Peninsula
• Lawsuit: Inmates saw guards abusing Jamycheal Mitchell, denying him food (Utterly unacceptable.)
• Misery repeats: Capitals eliminated by Penguins in overtime, 4-3 (“Washington forced an extra period with a stunning three-goal comeback, but Pittsburgh’s Nick Bonino punched in a loose puck in overtime — bringing the Capitals’ Stanley Cup hopes to a familiar end.” Sigh.)
• Forecast: 15 straight days of measurable rain and counting