by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, February 20.
- Researcher’s 1979 Arctic Model Predicted Current Sea Ice Demise, Holds Lessons for Future (“Study from decades ago proved remarkably accurate in showing how global warming would affect the Arctic’s sea ice, currently in steep decline.”)
- Krugman: On Economic Arrogance (“The evidence, then, is totally at odds with claims that tax-cutting and deregulation are economic wonder drugs. So why does a whole political party continue to insist that they are the answer to all problems?” There’s also no evidence that cutting regulations helps the economy – or people or the environment or anything else.)
- A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
- Trump tries to explain remark about Sweden amid confusion (The only question at this point is what specifically is wrong mentally with Trump, not whether he’s deranged.)
- Chris Wallace To Reince Priebus: ‘You Don’t Get To Tell’ The Press What To Do (It’s amazing, but every time I watch Reince Preibus, I find him even more odious than the previous time.)
- A Big Shoe Just Dropped (“The new story explains that a group of Trump operatives, including top lawyer Michael Cohen and fired former campaign manager Paul Manafort, along with a pro-Putin Ukrainian parliamentarian named Andrii V. Artemenko and Mr. Sater are pushing President Trump on a ‘peace plan’ for Russia and Ukraine.”)
- Will Republicans Break With Trump Over Russia?
- It’s Bad (“The first month of the Trump presidency has been more cruel and destructive than the majority of Americans feared. The worst is yet to come.”)
- Reality collides with Trump’s promises
- Gutting Obamacare Would Leave 3 Million Americans Without Drug Treatment (“Including a lot of people who support Donald Trump.”)
- Donald Trump’s Great Escape (“On Saturday, the president slipped away from the doubters in Washington to address a Florida crowd filled with loyal supporters.”)
- Trump had two chances to calm fears of rising anti-Semitism in America. He chose neither.
- Virginia House Speaker Howell won’t be seeking re-election (Good riddance to this ALEC tool, but it’s not going to get any better under his far-right-wing successor Kirk Cox.)
- Va. Democrats to challenge GOP state lawmakers in each district Clinton won (Right, Dems announced this on Feb. 10.)
- Meet the women who are up in Brat’s grill
- Fossil fuels foe calls proposed pipelines ‘climate disasters’ (“The Mountain Valley Pipeline project alone would yield annual greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to the emissions from 26 average coal power plants or more than 19 million passenger vehicles, Oil Change International reported.”)
- Editorial: On welfare reform, Republicans are all talk(First they should get rid of CORPORATE welfare and also welfare to super-rich people.)
- As women clamor to get IUDs, Virginia’s budget won’t include coverage
- Editorial: Growth rate prompts questions about future
- Editorial: A model for civic engagement (“The event, called Engage Norfolk, sought to harness some of the energy bubbling among a concerned and motivated citizenry, directing it toward productive ends.”)
- Not as warm into Tuesday but a ridiculously mild February week overall
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