by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 28.
- Catastrophic flooding ‘beyond anything experienced’ in Houston and ‘expected to worsen’ (“The Weather Service is saying this is Houston’s worst flood in recorded history.”)
- Hurricane Harvey Probably Isn’t a 500-Year Event Anymore
- Scope of storm’s destruction starts to come into chilling focus
- Cost of cleaning up Harvey will bring new test of governance for Trump and the GOP
- Houston Wasn’t Built for a Storm Like This (“It won’t be next time either.”)
- Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president
- Democrats exploit GOP ethics woes in battle for the House (“Some longtime Republicans are dogged by ethical questions, and Democrats believe their seats are now within reach.”)
- Secretary of State says Trump doesn’t speak for American values
- Trump’s plan to put fragile national monuments in danger (“Proposed rollbacks on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante threaten irreplaceable landscapes.”)
- Juan Williams: Trump’s shutdown gamble
- Did Climate Change Intensify Hurricane Harvey? (“The human contribution can be up to 30 percent or so up to the total rainfall coming out of the storm.”)
- ‘My city is underwater’: Houston sports journalist blasts Trump for feckless Harvey response
- States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change (But in Virginia, it’s largely business as usual for Dominion and its bought-and-paid-for politicians.)
- Krugman: Fascism, American Style (“As I said, there’s a word for people who round up members of ethnic minorities and send them to concentration camps, or praise such actions. There’s also a word for people who, out of cowardice or self-interest, go along with such abuses: collaborators. How many such collaborators will there be? I’m afraid we’ll soon find out.”)
- “The worst flood Houston has ever experienced” shows no sign of stopping
- Trump is shedding supporters like no other president in modern history
- Exclusive: Trump vents in Oval Office, “I want tariffs. Bring me some tariffs!” (Lunatic.)
- Trump Is A 19th-Century President Facing 21st-Century Problems
- Three men charged in Charlottesville attacks on counterprotesters
- Southwest Virginia Democrats rally ahead of statewide elections
- Candidates, voters rally at Acres of Democrats even
- Editorial: Meet the rural liberals making a case for rural America (“Northam’s plan was both politically smart and politically clever. The plan was smart because Democrats have run poorly in rural Virginia in recent elections; they really need to cut those margins. The plan was clever because it didn’t sound much like a traditional Democratic tax-and-spend approach to problems. Indeed, the centerpiece of Northam’s plan is to waive certain taxes for new businesses opening in rural areas. His plan was both modest and creative, an unusual combination to achieve.”)
- Virginia emergency response team heads to Houston to help with Harvey rescue efforts
- Charlottesville’s ‘recovery town hall’ surfaces deep frustration with city officials, but few answers about deadly rally
- Group plans 10-day march from Charlottesville to DC: ‘This is a movement’
- After Charlottesville Protests, Fury Flows Toward Local Officials
- Transgender rights, Rebel name take center stage in Fairfax School Board race
- Ahead of regional summit, left-leaning policy groups say ‘No’ to a sales tax for Metro (Why not use some of the money raised from a sales tax to provide subsidized or even free rides to poor people? Wouldn’t that help counter the regressivity of a sales tax?)
- A quarter-million Northern Virginia schoolchildren head back to class (“More than a quarter-million students in Northern Virginia are heading back to school Monday as the state’s two largest school districts — Fairfax and Prince William — reopen their doors.”)
- Charlottesville gathers to talk about path forward, but many still want answers
- In local sermon, Jesse Jackson puts Heyer in company of Rosa Parks
- In the former capital of the Confederacy, the debate over statues is personal and painful (“Virginia has more Civil War monuments than any other state, and Richmond is ground zero”)
- Editorial: Explore more options for region’s trash (Three words: reduce, reuse, recycle.)
- Editorial: Portsmouth does the right thing by its dogs
- D.C.-area forecast: Summer heat still on vacation, showers likely tomorrow
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