by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, February 11.
- Virus Deaths Top 1,000 While China Pushes Factories to Restart
- Trump Downplays Brain Injuries in Iran Attack With Toll at 109
- ‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety
- Counting the cost of Australia’s summer of dread
- As Trump takes aim at EU trade, European officials brace for fight
- Our Decadent Energy System Needs Renewal (“What’s more self-indulgent than treating the environment like landfill?” Exactly. Dumping pollution into the air and water for FREE? That’s totally fracked up!)
- Trump’s budget reveals a tremendous fraud
- $4.8 trillion budget plan from Trump administration seeks big cuts to domestic programs (“Democrats widely panned the election-year spending proposal, which they said would hurt low-income families”)
- Press Watch: Trump’s vicious vendetta is just a game to the New York Times (“Trump seeks vengeance against impeachment truth-tellers — and for the paper of record, it’s all a boxing match”)
- Ten sunniest US states added 1.8 GW of small-scale solar in 2019, as solar advocates press for more
- Trump is right. We might have to impeach him again.
- Trump still losing to all major Democratic candidates after acquittal
- Trump’s First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama’s Last 3
- Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that
- The Supreme Court Is As Complicit As the Senate (“Trump’s abuses of office have been blessed by every branch of government.”)
- Barr acknowledges Justice Dept. has created ‘intake process’ to vet Giuliani’s information on Bidens (Barr is a menace.)
- Prosecutors recommend Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison
- The FBI Makes a Bizarre Claim About Pro-Choice Terrorism
- ‘Vindman Deserves Better’: GOP Group Hits Donald Trump With New Attack Ad On Fox News (“‘Our military deserves better. Our country deserves better,’ Republicans for the Rule of Law declares in the spot that will air on ‘Fox & Friends.'”)
- Trump Brings Up Debunked Claim of Democratic Voter Fraud at New Hampshire Rally (Trump is a crazy conspiracy theorist.)
- Sanders may be on the verge of another New Hampshire win. Democrats aren’t ready to get behind him.
- What’s at Stake in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary (“For the first time since 2004, nobody dropped out after Iowa, sending the full field of candidates on to New Hampshire. Public polling during the week since Iowa’s caucuses show a firm top two of Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.”)
- Bloomberg has no delegates, but he might be far ahead (“He has created a behemoth campaign infrastructure.” It is massive.)
- A warning to Democrats: Don’t let Bernie Sanders get away from you (“They are repeating Republicans’ 2016 errors”)
- Biden, struggling in New Hampshire, looks to avoid a knockout punch
- US politics: Sanders and Buttigieg go head to head as Democrats vote in New Hampshire – live (“Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg battling for first place”)
- Biden’s “lying dog-faced pony soldier” moment, explained (“It wasn’t the first time he’s had an odd answer to a woman’s question.”)
- Who needs to win the New Hampshire primary (“The New Hampshire expectations game for (nearly) every candidate, explained.”)
- There is only one question for Democratic primary voters: Who can win?
- By any measure, Buttigieg is Trump’s proven superior
- On eve of N.H. vote, Democratic candidates refocus attacks on Trump
- Trump jostles with Democrats for spotlight in early-voting states
- Election Update: Our First Big National Poll Shows Just How Unsettled The Race Is
- With five days until early voting begins, top Democratic presidential campaigns still in the dark about new caucus process
- There are two Joe Bidens. The wrong one is running for president.
- The Democratic Race Isn’t Ending Any Time Soon
- Today may mark the end of the Iowa-New Hampshire monopoly
- Is Amy Klobuchar the last woman standing?
- Joe Biden Struggles in New Hampshire
- This Is How Reaganism and Thatcherism End
- Scarborough: ‘Media silence is deafening’ condemning Snoop Dogg attacks against Gayle King
- Betraying their heritage: Trump’s immigration functionaries fail to understand the lessons of the Italian-American story (“Enter the great-grandson of the illiterate Domenick Luigi Cuccinelli, Ken, who expects his plan to fast-track the deportation of asylum-seekers — denying victims of horrendous violence essential access to counsel — to reach full gear this month. Is this the tragic ending to the American immigrant success story — the grandchildren of determined peasants turning their backs on another generation of masses yearning to breathe free?”)
- Senators Mark Warner, Tim Kaine Statements on Trump Budget
- With “Crossover” Deadline Tomorrow, Virginia House and Senate Busy Passing Tons of Bills…Here Are Some of Them
- Horowitz: A wealth of evidence backs high-cost loan reform
- Why Ralph Northam’s proposal to raise the gas tax is a good idea
- New CNU Poll: Trump at 42%-55% in Virginia; Northam at 52%-36%; “Pent-up demand for key elements of the new Democratic legislative majority’s agenda”
- Editorial: On Crossover Day, a clear view of the mess (“The flurry of activity that precedes today’s Crossover Day in Richmond is further evidence of a broken legislative system in Virginia.”)
- The Case for Asha the Elephant
- Elephant-sized exception allows Natural Bridge’s Asha to continue interactions with people
- CCAN: Happening Now: Your Legislator Voting on Huge Climate Bill in Richmond!
- On eve of Clean Economy Act vote, a split emerges among Democrats
- Gas tax changes among votes on Virginia’s ‘crossover’ day
- Governor Northam says gun reform ‘no threat’ to second amendment (“A House committee voted in favor of legislation that bans ‘assault weapons’ like AK-47s and AR-15s.”)
- ‘I just have a libertarian streak.’ Nine House Republicans vote with Democrats to decriminalize marijuana.
- A Va. Republican criticized Democrats in a tweet. Then they killed 4 of his bills. (Glenn Davis is one of the most ridiculous Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates.)
- Deers, Cars and Endangered Species: How Wildlife Corridors Can Help
- With Key Vote Looming on Predatory Lending Restrictions, Some Are Worried About New Loopholes
- An Effort to Repeal Virginia’s “Right to Work” Law Has Been Shelved
- Protecting Virginia Forests from Wildfires
- Senate votes to drop third year of state gas tax increase, but Richmond area would get new regional levy
- Debra Barksdale, Christine Kennedy and Shelly Smith column: To meet Virginians’ health care needs, train more nurse practitioners
- Northern Virginia’s new marketing effort aims to lure and retain young tech talent
- Virginia moves toward marijuana decriminalization
- Richmond City Council kills $1.5B Navy Hill deal (“The decision torpedoed Mayor Levar Stoney’s signature project and dashed the hopes of the development group led by Dominion Energy CEO Thomas F. Farrell II.”)
- Naval shipyard in Virginia placed on brief lockdown after false active shooter report
- A stolen slave auction plaque shook Charlottesville. But the confession was the real shock.
- Arlington County School Leaders Sign Off On Divisive Plan To Move Schools
- Editorial: Would a Lea-Bowers mayoral race open way for a Republican?
- Northern Virginia student dies after contracting flu, mother says
- Morning rain, then a brief break before more wet weather moves in
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