by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 19.
- Wild man behind rock-and-roll’s rebellious spirit dies at 90 (“Chuck Berry, a charismatic singer, songwriter and one of the greatest guitarists of all time, was an unlikely idol who set the gold standard for the rock extroverts who followed. His songs and the boisterous performance standards he set influenced the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and later Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger.”)
- In Rocky Week, Trump’s Self-Inflicted Chaos on Display (It’s chaos with no constructive purpose, lots of utter incompetence.)
- Dowd: Trump, Working-Class Zero (“Consumed by his paranoia about the deep state, Donald Trump has disappeared into the fog of his own conspiracy theories. As he rages in the storm, Lear-like, howling about poisonous fake news, he is spewing poisonous fake news…Maybe if these elites-pretending-not-to-be-elites deigned to talk to some knowledgeable elites in government once in a while, they might emerge from the distorted, belligerent, dystopian, Darwinian, cracked-mirror world that is alarming Americans and our allies. They might even stop ripping off the working-class people they claim to be helping.”)
- Inside Trump’s White House, New York moderates spark infighting and suspicion
- Kristof: ‘That Food Saved My Life.’ Trump Wants to Cut It. (“The essence of the Trump budget released a few days ago is to cut aid to the needy, whether at home or abroad, and use the savings to build up the military and construct a wall on the border with Mexico…Trump’s vision of a security threat is a Chinese submarine or perhaps an unauthorized immigrant, and that’s the vision his budget reflects. But in 2017 some of the gravest threats we face are from diseases or narcotics that can’t be flattened by a tank but that can be addressed with diplomacy, scientific research, and social programs inside and outside our borders.”)
- Court Blocks Most of North Carolina GOP’s Legislative Coup, Including Election-Board Power Grab (“This matter isn’t settled yet. But it is increasingly obvious that Republicans’ power grab simply cannot survive judicial scrutiny.”)
- Trump Tweets Suggest President (Still) Doesn’t Understand How NATO Works (Trump’s terminally stupid.)
- The Case Against Neil Gorsuch (“The Supreme Court nominee’s jurisprudence shows he values religious people’s beliefs above all else.”)
- Trump blew off Friday’s ‘major meeting’ about veterans’ healthcare with no explanation
- Trump allies Roger Stone and Paul Manafort both wanted for questioning in Russia investigations
- Feinstein on potential for Trump ouster: ‘I think he’s gonna get himself out’
- Gubernatorial candidates stop by Young Democrat convention
- Democratic Candidates for Gov. Attend Fundraiser in Charlottesville (And they miss the big news, which is the anti-pipeline protest…)
- Corey Stewart advocates for Confederate flags, statues at Roanoke rally (Yep, Republican Corey Stewart is the candidate of xenophobia and the Confederacy. What a party!)
- With recent gun bust renewing calls for ‘one-gun-a-month’ limit, a look at how effective the repealed law was
- Editorial: The facts on higher ed in Virginia (“Are the colleges and universities more expensive than they once were? Yes, and the numbers show why: The commonwealth of Virginia reversed its support for higher education in the early 1990s and, ever since, with surges and lurches, as General Assembly and gubernatorial support went down, college and university tuition went up.”)
- How outsider Justin Fairfax broke through the Democratic Party in bid for lieutenant governor
- Schapiro: Va. GOP tax-cut scheme: Let them eat hamburger (“They don’t call it the silly season for nothing.”)
- Trump wants to end funding of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup. Here’s who’s fighting back. (“A bipartisan group of lawmakers says the estuary is too important to end the program.”)
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation rallies against President Trump’s Budget
- Trump’s budget would mean double whammy for Washington region
- Don’t leave Metro gasping for oxygen (“Fares rise and service dwindles even as riders continue to abandon the subway.”)
- Va. Democrat Northam ramps up energy in bid for governor, calls Trump a ‘narcissistic maniac’ (Yep, he started doing this a couple weeks ago.)
- Republican Del. Jimmie Massie won’t seek re-election in western Henrico district
- HRSD says it can hold down local stormwater fees
- Virginia to see big Medicaid cuts under GOP plan
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel boring machine not in town until 2018
- Virginia bounced by Florida in second round of NCAA tournament
- Challenger announces in Hollins District race (“The Hollins District race for Roanoke County Board of Supervisors became the first to draw competition Saturday when challenger Phil North launched his candidacy.”)
- D.C.-area forecast: Brief morning snow showers, then breezy and cool today; milder tomorrow and Tuesday
