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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, September 7. Happy Labor Day!
- India Moves Into 2nd Place For COVID-19 Cases (Note that India has four times the U.S.’ population, yet the U.S. is #1 in COVID-19 cases. Great job by Trump, huh?)
- Belarus Opposition Says Leaders Missing After Weekend Protests
- Europe Hotspots Spike Again; U.K. Under Pressure: Virus Update
- Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there’s no Brexit deal
- Trump thinks the economy is no longer worth his time. We’ll all pay the price.
- Why the CDC’s Nov. 1 vaccine rush is likely to backfire
- ‘Who’s Putting These Ideas in His Head?’ (“The former FBI agent Peter Strzok worries that Americans will never learn the full story about Trump’s relationship with Russia.”)
- States Brace For Painful Budget Cuts With Congress Deadlocked Over Coronavirus Aid
- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin expects Congress will extend government funding into December
- Schiff accuses Barr of lying over election intelligence (Right, and as a NEWS organization, how about put right in the headline that it’s objectively possible to state that Barr IS lying?)
- Juan Williams: Swamp creature at the White House (By far the most corrupt administration in U.S. history.)
- Democrats sound alarm on possible election chaos
- Biden to mark Labor Day with union event as U.S. campaign enters homestretch
- Michael Cohen’s Book Says Trump Held ‘Low Opinions of All Black Folks’
- More Than Ever, Trump Casts Himself as the Defender of White America
- Trump attacks the sixth-richest woman in the world for her ties to The Atlantic
- The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets ‘losers’ is just the beginning
- Trump has a long history of disparaging military service
- Trump, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service
- CBS News Battleground Tracker: National, Wisconsin contests steady amid protests; more think Biden trying to calm situation
- Biden’s lead over Trump is the steadiest on record
- Trump and allies ratchet up disinformation efforts in late stage of campaign
- Biden Holds Lead Over Trump, Support for Candidates Hardens
- Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say (“Such federal violations carry a five-year statute of limitations. There is no statute of limitations in North Carolina for felonies, including campaign finance violations.”)
- US solar growth in 2020 is driven by giant utility-scale projects (“US-based IPP sPower closed a $350 million tax equity commitment from Wells Fargo to support the ongoing construction of the 620-MW Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center project — the largest solar project east of the Rockies. sPower claims the project will be one of the largest standalone tax equity commitments in the solar sector’s recent history. The project is also sPower’s largest project to date. Located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the project is slated for completion in summer 2021.”)
- Scoop: Kevin McCarthy warns Trump’s war on mail could screw GOP
- Does Labor Day Mark the Beginning of the Real Presidential Race? (“Legend aside, most contests are decided before the holiday”)
- Jacob Blake Shares Bedside Video From Hospital: ‘Every 24 Hours There’s Pain’
- Hobby Lobby Boycott Calls after ‘Vote Trump’ Display Spotted in Store (That company is a disgrace.)
- Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools
- Kanye West’s Nearly $7 Million Presidential Bid Has Hit Some Legal Snags (“And his FEC filing has revealed more GOP ties”)
- Trump prepares a new fall offensive: Branding Kamala Harris (“Drawing on a playbook of caricature and condemnation, Trump’s campaign hopes to chip away at Joe Biden’s lead by presenting Harris as an extreme California liberal.” Yeah, except she’s not “extreme” in any way.)
- In Year of Voting by Mail, U.S. Scrambles to Beef Up In-Person Voting, Too (“Communities are running short on time to hire poll workers and reconfigure in-person voting to make it safe during a pandemic. A major concern is finding younger people to work at the polls, given that 58 percent of election workers are 61 or older and therefore more susceptible to Covid-19.”)
- Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party vs. Workers (“Support for unions is rising. The G.O.P. might want to be part of that.”)
- America Needs a Responsible Adult In the Oval Office Who Will “Turn On the Lights”
- Video: Mary Trump Campaigns for VA01 Democratic Nominee Qasim Rashid, Decries “Government Without Empathy and Kindness” Under Her Uncle Donald Trump
- Where Do Virginia’s Congressional Races Stand With Voting Starting in 12 Days?
- Jaime Contreras column: Labor Day in Virginia has new meaning this year (By the “vice president of 32BJ SEIU, which represents more than 175,000 workers along the East Coast, including nearly 7,000 throughout Northern Virginia among the 20,000 in the Washington, D.C. area.”)
- Mark Mix column: This Labor Day, celebrate the freedom and prosperity of Virginia’s right-to-work law (Hahahaha, wuuuut? Also, gotta love how the RTD buries the “lede” on this one, which is that the column is by the “president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and National Right to Work Committee.”)
- Virginia is for workers. … Almost. (Under *Democrats*, “During the 2020 regular General Assembly, many important laws were put into place to make Virginia a better place for workers.”)
- Sunday (9/6) Virginia Data on COVID-19 Finds +1,199 Confirmed/Probable Cases (to 126,926), +32 Hospitalizations (to 9,881), +1 Deaths (to 2,678) From Yesterday
- DEQ to take public comments on water pollution in Virginia
- Bill seeks to open past police investigation records to the public
- Dominion applies for additional 20-year license for Louisa nuclear reactor units
- Even with federal moratorium, thousands still face eviction in Richmond
- Richmond saw 48 protest-related fires causing $3.9 million-plus in losses during first 18 days of unrest
- Beautiful beginning to the week before turning humid, unsettled (“The increase in humidity really becomes noticeable midweek.”)
