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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, November 25.
- EU Says U.K. Won’t Get Better Brexit Deal If Parliament Votes No
- Brexit: EU leaders back Theresa May’s deal in Brussels (“Summit offers unanimous support while marking ‘moment of deep sadness’”)
- Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers (“Documents alleged to contain revelations on data and privacy controls that led to Cambridge Analytica scandal”)
- The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard? (“Coal, the most polluting of energy sources, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change. Yet three years after the Paris agreement, when leaders promised decisive action, it shows no sign of disappearing.”)
- Taiwanese reject legalizing same-sex unions in referendum
- Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border
- White House admits Trump climate policies will cost Americans $500 billion a year
- Mass deaths and mayhem: National Climate Assessment’s most shocking warnings
- Democrats Might Be Too Afraid of Their Own Power to Aggressively Investigate Trump (“There is simply no basis for thinking that Democrats will pay a political price for prioritizing investigations of Trump over helping the president score bipartisan policy victories.”)
- Trump at bay: failure looms as Democrats load ‘subpoena cannon’
- These Democrats are working with Republicans to possibly block Pelosi’s House Speaker bid (“Blue Dog Democrats and the House Problem Solvers Caucus make up the newest opposition from Pelosi’s right.”)
- Pelosi’s Grip on Power to Be Tested This Week
- In book, Trump allies call out government officials, alleging they are ‘embedded enemies’ (“The book, which echoes many of the president’s grievances, was written by Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, GOP operatives who do not work in the administration but are close to Trump and fashion themselves as protectors.” These people are bats*** crazy.)
- Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier’s effort to ‘defend his homeland’ (Basically, Hyde-Smith is Mississippi’s version of neo-Confederate Corey.)
- Virginia Sen. Warner among who’s who in new Democratic leadership (“Warner will be a vice chair of the Senate Leadership Conference.”)
- ‘It’s adapt or die’: After midterms, Va. Republicans look for way forward
- Opinion/Commentary: Amazon, redistricting — unalike, yet similar (“The Amazon deal, in which HQ2 will be split between Arlington and Queens, the New York City outer borough whence sprang Trump, is a reminder of Virginia’s continuing evolution as a suburban dynamo whose service-dominated economy is a magnet for younger, highly educated come-heres — many foreign-born — who are gravitating to the Democratic Party, fueling an ascent extended earlier this month with the pickup of three congressional seats…not even the most creative cartography can thwart the whims of voters Republicans thought they could ignore: younger non-natives flooding the suburbs, including Asians and Hispanics barely visible a generation ago.”)
- W. Tayloe Murphy column: Governor Northam’s pledge to protect (“…a recent study commissioned by VIRGINIAforever found that our natural resource spending lags far behind our neighboring states and well below the national average.” I’d add that you’re not protecting the environment – the exact opposite, actually – if you support massive, fracked-gas pipelines that are the greenhouse gas equivalent of 45 coal-fired power plants!)
- Long-Term Care Costs in Virginia Mostly Rise
- Editorial: State senator’s family tragedy leads to help for Virginians (“FIVE YEARS ago, Virginia Sen. Creigh Deeds, a Bath County Democrat, lived through a nightmare.”)
- Hampton Roads’ Bobby Scott will have major clout when Democrats take over House
- Gilley: Virginia forward (“It is critical for the commonwealth to focus on and provide incentive funding for both preparation of Virginians for the new jobs in a technology-driven economy and to strongly support efforts by our universities to become more focused on innovation coming out of stronger research endeavors.”)
- Jim Hall: Southside Connector far too risky (“Norfolk City Council members can’t fully grasp the catastrophic damage that can occur from the rupture and explosion of a high-pressure pipeline.”)
- Video: Police, Educators, SEIU President, County Board Candidate Linda Sperling All Speak Out Against Cuts to Fairfax County Pensions for New Employees
- After Amazon announcement, Va. schools prepare for new students, partnerships
- Plans for wind farm construction in Botetourt County remain on hold
- Editorial: Dual enrollment change would hurt students in rural Virginia
- EDITORIAL: HQ2 will make local housing less affordable
- Surovell elected to leadership position in Virginia Senate
- Bellamy leads council credit card spending (“All five councilors have a city credit card in their name. Four of the five cards have a $20,000 monthly credit limit. Councilor Mike Signer’s limit is $5,000. Councilor Heather Hill had not used her card as of Nov. 8. Councilor Wes Bellamy led all spenders in the statements submitted, racking up $15,116 between Sept. 6, 2017, and Oct. 29, 2018.”)
- Spotsylvania residents push back against proposed solar farm
- How Joe May can win the special election for the 33rd District State Senate seat (Yeah, good luck with that! Heh.)
- Dry today, more showers tomorrow
