by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, December 18.
- Earth’s Hottest Decade on Record Capped by Years of Extreme Storms and Deadly Wildfires
- How Europe’s Energy Islands Could Internationalize Offshore Wind Planning (“European grid operators want to combine 10-gigawatt offshore turbine clusters, interconnectors and hydrogen. It no longer looks like a pipe dream.”)
- U.S. Concedes Defeat on Gas Pipeline It Sees as Russian Threat (“The massive $11-billion project is just weeks away from completion.”)
- A grave day in history: Trump faces impeachment
- Trump Faces Historic Rebuke as House Votes on Impeachment Today
- Fact check: Trump’s wild letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading claims
- President Sends Six-Page Letter of Randomly Capitalized Ranting to Speaker of the House
- Trump Pens Deranged Six-Page Impeachment Letter, Mails It to Nancy Pelosi (“If the president was trying to make the case that he is fit for office, he failed miserably.”)
- Trump Writes Insane Letter to Pelosi Showing Why He’s Unfit For Office
- Trump sent Pelosi a six-page rant on impeachment full of lies. National media outlets repeated some of those lies. (They also reported it as straight news, that Trump had sent a “defense” of himself, instead of the REAL news, which is that the letter is completely unhinged.)
- Full List: Where Every House Member Stands on Impeachment Against Trump
- Pelosi Says She Hasn’t Had Time For Trump’s ‘Ridiculous’ Letter: ‘It’s Really Sick’
- It is hard to capture how bizarre and frightening Trump’s letter to Pelosi is
- Trump presents his own impeachment defense
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls Trump’s letter “sick” (It definitely is.)
- Trump Deserves Impeachment. The Trumpists Will Fight for a Generation to Deny That. (“This won’t end in the Senate. We’re going to keep having this fight over this impeachment, and Trumpism generally, for a generation as Trump’s defenders fight history’s verdict.”)
- Associate of Rudy Giuliani received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch -prosecutor
- Most Americans Think There’s Enough Evidence To Impeach Trump
- Hear No Evil (“Mitch McConnell prepares to run the impeachment trial as a cover-up.”)
- GOP senator confirms her party is ‘working closely with’ White House on impeachment (They should all recuse themselves.)
- Protesters demonstrate across the country ahead of House vote on Trump impeachment
- Republicans face political risks on impeachment. But history shows not all is lost. (“Doing the right thing is worth the risk.”)
- Impeachment and the Crack Up of the Conservative Mind
- U.S. Congress approves sweeping military housing overhaul
- Georgia purged 309,000 voters from its rolls. It’s the second state to make cuts in less than a week. (“The moves have alarmed voting rights advocates, who fear the removals will disenfranchise swaths of the electorate. A voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams is fighting the mass purge.”)
- How Has This Pesticide Not Been Banned? (“Government scientists say chlorpyrifos is unsafe. And yet it’s still in use.”)
- Energy Analysts Deliver More Bad News for US Fracking Industry’s Business Model (“This month, the energy consulting firm Wood MacKenzie gave an online presentation that basically debunked the whole business model of the shale industry.”)
- Rep. Jeff Van Drew Was ‘Almost Obsessively Anti-Trump’ Before He Considered Joining His Party
- Congress Passes 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, Including Military Housing Reforms, Other Measures by Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Mark Warner
- Despite Impeachment, Congressman Beyer is Finding Success With Animal Testing Bill
- Governor Ralph Northam Presents 2020–2022 Budget, Which He Calls “Most Progressive in Virginia’s History”
- Northam proposes new taxes on tobacco and gasoline, leaves income-tax rates untouched
- What’s in the Virginia budget plan
- The governor wants to give Virginia’s public HBCUs extra money. Why do they need it? (“Historically, black colleges have always fallen behind other schools when it comes to funding and resources”)
- Northam proposes ending vehicle safety inspections, raising gas tax
- Northam’s budget: More expensive cigarettes, cheaper health care, an end to ‘tax relief’ and a $200-million olive branch
- Education, Environment and Gas Tax: Takeaways from Gov’s Budget Proposal
- Gov. Northam Suggests Raises for Teachers, Taxes on Tobacco & Gas in Proposed Budget
- Video: “Virginia’s Newly Elected Progressive Prosecutors” Discuss Criminal Justice Reform at the Center for American Progress
- Virginia Democrats Want More Transparency In University Donations
- Paying for Climate Change Resilience: For Virginia’s Small Communities, Businesses Money is Scarce
- Erin Matson: Time for Virginia to ratify the ERA
- Second Amendment Sanctuary movement has no impact on gun control stance, Fairfax says (“Speaking outside a Roanoke City Council meeting, Fairfax said the wave of counties that have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries doesn’t sway his opinion on the importance of gun control. Instead, Fairfax said the focus should remain on what he called “common sense measures” to keep communities safe.”)
- What’s in Northam’s budget for Hampton Roads: Money for ODU and Norfolk State, port upgrades and more
- Virginia passed a law to combat human trafficking. Why isn’t everyone using it?
- Editorial: Brand new region (“A chamber task force to rebrand the region won’t solve the fundamental lack of cooperation between communities here which holds this area back.”)
- Do You Want to Be the New Fairfax County Democratic Committee’s Executive Director?
- ‘It was shameful’: After months of debate, Richmond School Board changes little in school zones
- Video, Photos: Fairfax County Swears in New Board of Supervisors, Constitutional Officers
- 78 guns and $1 million in drugs were seized in raids in Chesapeake, Norfolk and Portsmouth, feds say
- Hingeley shakes up Albemarle prosecutor staff
- A college freshman was found dead in a Va. jail cell. Now investigators know why. (“Aris Lobo-Perez, who had attended Radford University for just three weeks, died of opioid toxicity compounded by asthma, the state medical examiner’s officer ruled.”)
- ‘They didn’t break me’: German man convicted of Va. double murder freed after 33 years (“The German diplomat’s son, who was granted parole last month, says he will fight on to prove his innocence.”)
- Franklin County supervisors carefully embrace Second Amendment sanctuary status
- Cold and wind chilled into tomorrow, before temperature moderation through the weekend
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