by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, September 16.
- Typhoon Mangkhut: Slides Bury Dozens in Philippines as Storm Hits China
- Trump ‘likely’ to announce new China tariffs as early as Monday: source
- Tropical Storm Florence: Worst flooding is yet to come in some areas, hurricane center warns
- Florence Causes Catastrophic Flooding in the Carolinas
- Florence: At least eleven deaths reported as storm slogs across Carolinas
- Primary turnout soars in 2018 with Dems leading charge
- Dems’ confidence swells with midterms fast approaching (“Heading into a weeklong Yom Kippur recess, the party has an enormous lead in the generic poll, President Trump’s approval rating is ticking downward, and Republicans are scrambling to protect dozens of vulnerable seats in order to fend off a blue wave in November.”)
- ‘Robert Mueller’s real quest here is for the truth’: How Paul Manafort’s plea brings the special counsel probe closer to its endgame
- Ten Years After The Financial Crisis, The Contagion Has Spread To Democracy Itself (“Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson dealt a catastrophic blow to public faith in American institutions.”)
- Bob Woodward on the ‘Best Obtainable Version of the Truth’ About Trump
- Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Friend Isn’t Helping the Nominee’s Case (“The alleged witness in the Kavanaugh case wrote a memoir about his own schoolboy days as black-out drunk”)
- Gubernatorial Nominees Discuss Running For Office While Black (“In their first appearance together since winning their primaries, Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and Ben Jealous spent 10 minutes talking about the racist attacks on them and their campaigns.”)
- Trump tweets wrong death count for Hurricane Florence
- Trump: ‘Fake news media’ didn’t cover when Obama said ’57 states’ in 2008 (One slip of the tongue, which WAS reported on, is about 1 billionth as important as Trump’s constant barrage of lies and falsehoods.)
- Trump: Republicans’ and my poll numbers would be higher if not for Mueller’s ‘witch hunt’ (Or, to put it another way, if Trump himself weren’t a corrupt, possibly treasonous scumbag.)
- Prosecutor: Border Patrol agent charged with murdering 4
- Video: Va. Secretary of Education Atif Qarni Holds Town Hall in PW County; Joined by Numerous Elected Officials (“Elected officials at the meeting included PW County School Board Chair Babur Lateef, State Sens. Scott Surovell and Jeremy McPike; Dels. Elizabeth Guzman and Lee Carter; several members of the PW County School Board…”)
- Virginia National Guard sends soldiers to N.C. to support hurricane recovery efforts; Northam says Va. preparing for flooding in southwest part of state
- Debates set for 6th and 9th congressional candidates
- Editorial: Should we stop calling the coalfields the coalfields? (“We don’t call Southside Virginia ‘the tobacco fields’ or ‘the textile counties,’ even those industries once were powerful there. So why box in Virginia’s coal-producing counties with nomenclature that is redolent of the past and not the future?” Agreed, it should be ditched, as coal makes up only a miniscule percentage of southwestern Virginia’s economy.)
- Gov. Northam warns southwest Virginians to prepare for flooding, possible landslides
- Virginia man who helped spur changes in U.S. immunization policy dies at 28 (“Salamone developed polio from an oral vaccine when he was 4 months old. Since the CDC changed its guidelines in 2000, not a single child in America has contracted the disease.”)
- Virginia’s redistricting argument could strengthen push for independent map drawers
- Laura Wood Habr: Climate change threatens to drown Virginia Beach’s economy
- Hampton Roads businesses take hit from changing storm forecasts and evacuation order
- Navy ships that went to sea to avoid Florence set to return on Sunday to Hampton Roads area
- Mostly dry today, occasional showers and storms tomorrow into Tuesday (“The remnants of Florence finally catch up with us to start the work week, and while we don’t expect anything too extreme, some heavy tropical downpours are possible.”)
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