by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, December 28.
- Bitter cold across much of northern U.S. turns deadly
- Stirring confusion, IRS sets limited conditions for people to prepay property taxes
- War between Trump, media set to intensify
- Trump said he was ‘back to work.’ Then he live-tweeted Fox News and went golfing 2 straight days. (As always, just imagine if Barack Obama had acted like this; the right wingers would have gone nuts, 24/7 on Fox, etc.)
- How Trump could kill the Iran nuclear deal in January (“The president will soon face a series of deadlines during which he could deliver on a campaign promise to rip up the 2015 agreement.”)
- Roy Moore Files Lawsuit Contesting Alabama’s Senate Election Results (“The suit was filed less than a day before the state officially declares Doug Jones the winner.”)
- Roy Moore files lawsuit to block Alabama Senate result (“Moore’s attorney wrote in the complaint filed late Wednesday that he believed there were irregularities during the election and said there should be a fraud investigation and eventually a new election.” That should be thrown out summarily. What a joke.)
- Trump legal team readies attack on Flynn’s credibility
- If Flynn Is Just a Liar, Why Did Trump Keep Defending Him?
- Alexey Navalny and the Empty Spectacle of the Russian Election
- 9 bizarre things Trump did on the world stage in 2017 you probably forgot (“So much winning.”)
- 44 percent of Republicans think Trump repealed Obamacare (“Spoiler alert: He hasn’t.”)
- The conflicts of interest and corporate interests lurking behind op-eds in 2017 (“Media Matters has documented this year how op-ed pieces that have appeared in newspapers and online publications have frequently failed to inform readers about their authors’ financial conflicts of interest; and when corporate-backed entities have deceived editors and readers with cut-and-paste jobs supposedly by different writers”)
- What a presidential president would have said about his first year
- Here Is the Worst Anti-Science BS of 2017 (“Criminal justice, education, environment, medicine—nothing was spared from the war on science.” Republicans are the anti-science party.)
- House Intel panel subpoenas McCain associate over Trump dossier
- Howard Dean: Trump is running a ‘criminal enterprise out of the White House’
- The top 10 media stories of the year
- Trump builds his 2018 political message by rebranding Obama’s economic legacy (The Big Lie, part infinity.)
- Town: 2017 election outcome a huge win for the environment (ONLY if the proposed fracked gas pipelines – which Town’s organization basically did nothing about – are stopped and Virginia goes all out on clean energy.)
- McAuliffe considers accomplishments and unfinished business as he prepares to leave office
- Opinion/Editorial: More anxiety, uncertainty in House race
- In a House divided, Democrats say Va. GOP is offering perks for speaker votes (“With control of the chamber at stake and two races in limbo, an internal email warns Democratic delegates not to take bathroom breaks during votes.”)
- Tied House of Delegates election in limbo as judges remain silent on Democratic legal challenge
- Dave Belote column: Offshore drilling is a threat to national security
- Joe Cobb to formally announce candidacy for Roanoke City Council
- Charlottesville names Thierry Dupuis interim police chief
- Subfreezing weather dominates through New Year’s, snowflakes possible Saturday
