by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 16.
- Weapons experts pore over Pyongyang’s jaw-dropping display of missiles
- North Korea’s show of force falls short after failed missile launch (The problem is that they won’t fail forever.)
- Tens of Thousands March to Demand Trump Release Tax Returns
- Thousands march in U.S. to urge Trump to release his taxes
- Trump’s Appointees Raise Potential Ethics Conflicts
- The secret presidency (“The refusal to release visitor logs is yet another claw back of transparency by the Trump White House.”)
- Editorial: Mr. Trump’s 10-Second Convictions
- New York Times defends hiring extreme climate denier: ‘millions agree with him’ (“The Times replaces search for truth with search for popular ideas that are false. But would they hire a Holocaust denier?”)
- Medicaid expansion: It’s a widely popular issue Democrats and progressives can win on — right now
- Is Georgia Poised for a Democratic Upset? (“Demographic changes in the Atlanta suburbs could swing the state’s special election to the Dems—if challenger Jon Ossoff can take advantage of them.”)
- Mark Rozell: The difficult road ahead for Virginia Republicans (“Former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello is building his campaign around the idea that he is the Anti-Trump. Lt. Governor Ralph Northam, who earned a reputation as genteel and laid-back, these days calls Trump a ‘narcissistic maniac.’ Democrats, clearly, are banking on public backlash against the president.” I’d say both Dems are running against Trump, but that that’s only a small part of their campaigns.)(
- Opinion/Editorial: Virginia’s shameful ethics lapse (Try “many, many lapses.”)
- Schapiro: Stewart’s Confederate shtick gets attention, not votes (“Apparently betting the June 13 primary is thinly attended, Stewart is hoping they will have an exaggerated influence, along with birthers, gun-rights absolutists, nativists and others who flocked to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.”)
- Tim Kaine column: On Virginia Tech’s worst day, heroes rose
- Editorial: Remembering Tech victims, 10 years on
- Signs of hope on mental health 10 years after Tech tragedy
- Editorial: Governor should reconvene the Virginia Tech shooting panel
- Casey: Electric customers take it on the chin, once again
- After Virginia Tech mass shooting, big miracles at a small hospital
- Ten years after the Virginia Tech shooting, these are the emotional keepsakes of that terrible day (“Six people seared by the bloodshed share their stories”)
- Virginia Tech survivor Kevin Sterne now works at the university where he was shot
- A. Barton Hinkle column: Publicly funded ballparks are economic losers
- Democrats pitch ideas at city candidate forum
- Charlottesville to consider selling, donating Lee statue
- Timing plays a key role as localities prepare 2018 budgets
- Easter Sunday feeling more like Memorial Day
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