by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 21. Also check out Sen. Scott Surovell speaking out powerfully against execution drugs secrecy in Virginia.
- Earth itself raises the stakes for the Paris climate accord (“As leaders from more than 150 countries gather this week to sign the historic pact, a drumbeat of bleak scientific findings has shown that current global pledges to combat climate change — including the Paris accord — aren’t aggressive enough to stave off the worst consequences.” This is the ballgame right here.)
- Trump terrifies world leaders (And rightfully so!)
- Harriet Tubman Just Abolished Andrew Jackson From The $20 Bill (Superb.)
- Trump’s New York Surrogate Uses Racial Slur To Describe Obama
- Kasich: ‘My Republican Party doesn’t like ideas’ (Sure it does, it likes really bad ideas like the discredited “trickle-down economics” and other idiocies.)
- Blow: What Is Sanders’s Endgame?
- Kristof: Saudi Arabia, Exporter of Oil and Bigotry
- Republicans finish discrediting their Planned Parenthood investigation
- An Energy Bill in Need of Fixes (“A Senate bill could boost solar and wind energy but would encourage the burning of trees to generate electricity.”)
- Trump’s fabricated new image
- Ted Cruz is America’s most desperate fanatic: Why he’s unlikely to give up his (probably doomed) quest for the nomination
- Trump has a reason to feel great again: The GOP nominating contest shifts to his turf — and the delegate goal is well within reach (Yep, the formerly great “Party of Lincoln” is close to nominating a boorish, crude, bigoted neo-fascist for president. Time to break up the GOP.)
- LGBT law puts North Carolina governor in precarious position (This guy deserves to be booted out of office for many reasons, including his signing of the anti-transgender bill.)
- Why Conservatives Have Learned Nothing From Kansas’s Disastrous Tax Cuts (If states are the “laboratories of democracy,” then Kansas is basically the laboratory of a mad scientist, and the people of Kansas are the victims.)
- Call it Curt Schilling Syndrome: Overly sensitive man mortally offended by criticism of his own offensive comments
- The Myth of Sanders’ November Advantage (Yep, I’ve made this point many times, but to no avail…many Sanders supporters simply believe this to be the case.)
- Editorial: Transgender students deserve justice, too (Wow, from the super-conservative Richmond Times-Dispatch no less.)
- Virginia legislature approves plan to buy execution drugs from secret pharmacies
- McAuliffe’s vetoes of partisan flash points survive GOP attempts to override them
- Lawmaker wants Mark Herring to define ‘sex’ legally (Crazy teabagger David LaRock strikes again…)
- Effort to override veto of coal mine tax credit fails in General Assembly
- Virginia Senate fails to overturn veto of Confederate monuments bill (“Virginia’s Senate has failed to overturn Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s veto of a bill that seeks to prevent local governments from moving Confederate and Civil War monuments.”)
- Arlington board chair, challenger mix it up in their first campaign forum (“The incumbent has positioned herself as a fiscal conservative while her opponent Gutshall has declared himself a progressive.”)
- Shenandoah wildfire grows to 5,600 acres as 350 firefighters battle to contain it
- Arlington passes $1.2 billion budget with small tax rate cut
- Live Coverage of VTPPF 5th District Congressional Debate (Yet again, far more thorough coverage of Virginia politics by “the blogs” than by the corporate media. Speaking of which, I’ll be putting up my video from last night’s Arlington County Board debate soon.)
- Wind farm proposal in Botetourt County begins state approval process
- Editorial: Calculating costs of a 100-year flood (“A new report estimates a 100-year flood in Norfolk will cost between $354 million and $600 million, depending on how much the seas have risen.”)
- Chesapeake council incumbents, challengers deepen divide at Chamber of Commerce forum
- Temperatures are near perfect; Friday shower chance before dry weekend
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