by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, August 14.
- The Trump Camp’s Failing Efforts to Tame His Tongue
- Editorial: Donald Trump Courts the Gun Zealots
- Dems flooded with vulgar, suspicious messages following online data dump
- Ballot initiatives could tip the balance in swing states (“State votes on pot and minimum wage help Clinton, while Trump benefits from gun referendums in Nevada and Maine.”)
- Has Donald Trump hit bottom?
- Things are getting better for workers, despite populist candidates’ talk
- Kristof: Donald Trump Is Making America Meaner
- ‘We blame Donald Trump for this’: Two dead including Queens imam in NY anti-Islam attack
- Kaine: ‘Even Richard Nixon’ released his tax returns
- Journalists report increased threats and harassment at rallies as Trump declares war on ‘the media’
- Trump Spokesperson Blames Obama For Foreign Policy Decisions That Bush Actually Made
- Fox News Just Showed How Little It Cares About Sexual Harassment Allegations
- How did deeply red Virginia become such a challenge for the GOP in a single decade? (Good article, except for the comment about Barbara Comstock being a “moderate” Republican, which she is in no way/shape/form.)
- AFL-CIO sees shift toward unions in Virginia (“Virginia’s one of the toughest states in which to organize a union – but union organizers from Newport News to the western reaches of the state feel they’re on a roll these days.”)
- Schapiro: The Douglas gets Wilder for Bobby Scott (“McAuliffe’s vanity will be a factor, but that assumes there’s a reason to be vain. A damn good one: installing Virginia’s first African-American U.S. senator. It could provide excitement, energizing the Democratic base and driving up turnout, improving chances of a big win for the party at a time when it often loses or comes dangerously close: an off-year election.”)
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Questions abound one year after Mitchell’s death
- Five years of the Tide light rail in Norfolk: What was said then, the reality now
- Excessive heat warning with dangerous heat indexes once again today
