by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 8.
- Earth Overshoot Day: We’ve used up Nature’s Resource Budget for the Year Earlier than Ever Before
- Did Obama win the judicial wars? (“Liberals say he shied away from too many battles and ran into GOP roadblocks. But the result is still a transformation of U.S. courts.”)
- The “reformicons” are stuck in neutral: Trump, anger and nativism leaves movement DOA (“There’s a push to remake the GOP — but the nativist base won’t entertain anything that reeks of moderation”)
- The GOP’s youth-vote disaster: Donald Trump’s nomination could hurt Republicans for years to come (“Republicans were already at risk of sacrificing a whole generation of younger voters, and then they nominated Trump”)
- Blow: Trump’s Troubles in the Black Belt
- Election Update: Clinton’s Post-Convention Bump Is Holding Steady
- Reagan Republican: Trump is the emperor with no clothes
- Putin would eat Trump’s lunch
- Poll: Clinton Holds Big Lead In Virginia, Trump Up In Arizona
- Report: Roger Ailes Used Fox News’ Budget To Target Journalists In Smear Campaigns
- After Conservative Media Attacked Khizr Khan, He Started To Receive “Hateful Messages”
- Trump fundraising sets off Clinton camp alarms (“‘We must redouble our efforts in the coming weeks,’ a concerned Robby Mook writes.”)
- These Republicans were unable to stop Donald Trump’s nomination. But they’re trying again.
- What If the Green Party Stopped Being Kooky and Started Getting Real? (Yeah, as if that will ever happen.)
- ‘Hannity is not a journalist’: CNN anchor shellacs Fox hosts for helping Trump undermine election (Did anyone ever think he was??)
- Republican officials say Trump could lose to Clinton in key battleground states
- Tim Kaine Says Hillary Clinton Has Learned From Email ‘Mistake’
- Editorial: Campaign dollars replace dinners in Virginia politics
- Longtime Virginia prosecutor to seek lieutenant governor job (Dems now have two declared candidates for LG next year – Justin Fairfax and Gene Rossi.)
- Dragas, DeSteph: U.Va. closed session on controversial $2.3 billion fund was illegal (Not sure I’d believe anything either of those two have to say.)
- Portsmouth jail should release the JaMycheal Mitchell video
- Will Fairfax Mayor Scott Silverthorne face jail time after his methamphetamine bust? Maybe.
- How Petersburg slipped into its financial crisis
- Metro’s latest missteps and embarrassments (“The recent Silver Line derailment reinforces the urgency of establishing a Metro safety authority.”)
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Failing to plan exacts a toll in Chesapeake
- Andy Protogyrou will drop lawsuit against former election rival Bob McCabe
- Richmond’s Townley Haas qualifies for 200 free final in Rio Olympics
- Week starts pleasantly warm, but fast turns uncomfortably hot and muggy
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