by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 9. Also see President Obama’s weekly address, in which he highlights “two specific steps the Administration took this week to make sure everyone plays by the same rules.”
- Trump on Ice (“He probably won’t be the nominee. So how will the GOP get rid of him?”)
- Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini arrested in Brussels
- Springsteen cancels North Carolina concert over ‘anti-gay’ law (Brooooooce!!!)
- Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert abused 4 boys, prosecutors say (This Republican hypocrite’s lifetime voting record on LGBT issues? ZERO!)
- SpaceX finally landed a rocket at sea — a huge step toward making spaceflight cheaper
- Sanders and the Vatican Story (“Dana Houle untangles the story”)
- Bill Clinton: ‘I Almost Want to Apologize’ for Exchange With Black Lives Matter (How about just apologize?)
- Donald Trump’s disastrous free ride: Finally, The New York Times commands the obvious (“Journalism is now entertainment. Donald Trump knows it. Too bad for democracy that the press hasn’t figured it out”)
- The mystery of Republican women backing sexist Trump: They’re female misogynists who’ve grown to accept oppression (There’s definitely something wrong with them.)
- For The First Time, A State Just Banned Neonicotinoids, A Pesticide Threatening Pollinators (Maryland’s been kicking butt on the environment recently. Virginia? You MUST be kidding!)
- The Fairfax County meals tax is back and it’s a bad idea, say local restaurateurs (How else do they suggest raising needed revenues?)
- ‘Man of the people’: Full church remembers state Sen. John Miller
- What does $12.8 billion of transportation projects get you? Three times the congestion.
- McAuliffe vetoes bill to allow party affiliation on ballots in local elections
- Former U-Va. student ‘Jackie’ deposed in Rolling Stone lawsuit (“The central figure in the story gave a statement under oath regarding the account of gang rape she gave to Rolling Stone.”)
- Fairfax supervisors stopped using free park passes, but 100 others still have them
- After 33 years, Keith Allen Harward walks out of a Va. prison a free man
- Meeting to pick 9th District GOP delegates will test Trump vs. Cruz forces
- Environment top concern at Montgomery County budget hearing
- Pipeline surveyors return to the field — and controversy
- Rain, snow and temperatures in the 40s. Spring, anyone?
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