by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 11. Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour, if you haven’t done so already.
- ‘This could destroy China’: parliament sets Xi Jinping up to rule for life (“People’s Congress confirms abolition of presidential term limits, sparking fears Xi is ‘leading us back to the Mao era’”
- With Snap ‘Yes’ in Oval Office, Trump Gambles on North Korea
- Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response
- Trump’s Abrupt Calls on North and Trade Open Door for China (“For allies who have long looked to the United States to provide security and stability, Mr. Trump’s actions injected fresh uncertainty into strategic calculations in Asia.”)
- China allows Xi to remain president indefinitely, tightening his grip on power (Bad move.)
- China says trade war with U.S. will only bring disaster to global economy (Correct; Trump’s tariffs and trade war will kill a LOT of jobs in the U.S. and around the world.)
- Dowd: The Porn President (“Disgusted with the Rat Pack role model at the top, women are lining up not just to vote, but to run for office. A historic number are running for Congress this year, and in Texas alone last Tuesday, 25 Democratic women won their primaries or advanced to a runoff.”)
- Tax Overhaul Was Rushed, and Now May Need Changes
- Vote. That’s Just What They Don’t Want You to Do. (“Disillusionment and disenfranchisement have combined to undermine our democracy. We don’t have to let them.”)
- US steelworkers say Trump tariff plan has appeal – ‘but about 40 years too late’ (Yep, today it’s worse than worthless to do this.)
- Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy (“Resistance must take the form of the affirmation of the values and institutions that the President has scorned and threatened.”)
- Trump Touts Steel, Praises Drug-Dealer Death Penalty at Rally
- Trump Gambles on Kim Meeting, Predicts It’ll Go `Very Well’
- Steve Bannon to French Far-Right: “Let Them Call You Racist…Wear It as a Badge of Honor” (“Bannon lets it all hang out on his European tour.”)
- Asked about US election meddling, Putin resorts to an anti-Semitic smear
- At Pennsylvania rally, Trump endorses himself (“The president visited western Pennsylvania to boost a struggling Republican congressional candidate—but made clear to voters that it’s all about him.”)
- Mark Warner: The country is ‘woefully unprepared’ for cyber threats
- Senator Mark Warner, who led political ad crackdown, is concerned about bad security on connected devices
- Warren: ‘I’m not running for president’
- Five things lawmakers want attached to the $1 trillion funding bill
- Sessions: Court rulings that block Trump policies ‘unconstitutional’ (Whoa, what???)
- Donald Trump’s Nukes Plan Puts the Whole World in Peril (“His Nuclear Posture Review is like something out of ‘Dr. Stranglove.'”
- If Michael Cohen Is Telling the Truth About His Stormy Daniels Payment, He Could Be Disbarred
- Trump says he hopes Oprah runs: ‘It would be a painful experience for her’
- 3 Dozen Shareholder Climate Resolutions Target Oil, Gas and Power Companies
- From Scandals to Secrecy, the Curious Similarities Between Trump’s and Reagan’s EPA
- Transparency varies among Virginia licensees
- Editorial: Tim Kaine lost in 2016, but looks unbeatable this year (We need Kaine to win huge, both to send a message and also to help our Congressional and other “downballot” candidates.)
- General Assembly adjourns 60-day session without a budget, special session comes next
- Schapiro: Budget overtime is the new normal (“This go-around, a tardy $115 billion budget — let’s assume that the General Assembly, facing an absolute deadline of June 30, eventually gets it done — is a casualty of a Republican family feud over whether to accept more than $2.5 billion in federal funds to bring an estimated 300,000 uninsured Virginians under the Medicaid umbrella.”)
- Winners and losers of the 2018 General Assembly session
- Va. to give Metro $154 million a year in permanent additional funding
- Lawmakers put Metro on firmer footing — at last
- Editorial: Local governments have to see into the future
- Many lawmakers are lawyers, business owners who can take time away, but here’s how others struggle (We need a major overhaul of the state legislatures in a bunch of ways, including compensation packages, length of session, financing of campaigns, lobbying by companies that are theoretically regulated by the state, etc, etc.)
- EDITORIAL: Fredericksburg’s brave attempt at racial reconciliation
- Fredericksburg-area schools set policies on proposed gun violence walkouts
- Northern Virginia’s oldest ‘slug’ line imperiled by transit center project (“For nearly 50 years, Northern Virginia commuters who work in the District have flocked to Old Keene Mill Road in Springfield and picked up complete strangers for the ride into the city.”)
- More families are staying in Richmond, but the school system still only enrolls 73 kids for every 100 born here
- ACC champs: UVA beats UNC to claim program’s third tourney title
- Enjoyable Sunday with light snow possible Monday, but will it stick?
