by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 7.
- Dow tumbles 572 points as trade war fears pummel stocks
- The Memo: Trump’s risky gambit on trade roils markets
- Mnuchin warns of ‘potential’ trade war with China (“Markets swoon over worries that trade tensions are escalating”)
- Inside the EPA: ‘It’s just a slow-motion train wreck’
- Lobbyist couple had to change the locks on Pruitt (Our COUNTRY needs to “change the locks,” metaphorically speaking, on Pruitt and anyone like Pruitt.)
- Scott Pruitt is unfit to serve (“The ethics scandals just keep coming for the embattled EPA administrator.”)
- AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel
- Exclusive: Trump begins informal prep for potential Mueller interview
- Trump mocks Martin Luther King’s dream (“The White House’s claim to govern under an ‘American spirit of fraternity’ looks like a joke.”)
- Michelle Obama: My husband was ‘the good parent’ compared to Trump (Trump is the abusive, sociopathic parent who should not BE a parent.)
- Farenthold resigns from Congress (“The Texas Republican faced allegations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior from former staff members.”)
- Mattis approves sending 4,000 National Guard troops to border
- The Trump Administration Scrubbed Climate Science From an Important New Report (“Censorship of this kind is something you’d see in Russia or some totalitarian regime.”)
- Panic! Don’t panic! Navigating the trade talk proves dicey
- NRA’s Ted Nugent compares Democrats to “rabid coyotes”: “Keep your gun handy, and every time you see one, you shoot one” (Nugent is completely demented, violent, sociopathic, just like the NRA.)
- If taxes aren’t working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks? (“The Republican 2018 messaging crisis, explained: They ‘backpedaled into cultural issues, and it looked desperate.'”)
- Chief of Staff Advised a Resistant Trump to Fire the E.P.A. Chief
- Trump Staffers Are Freaking Out Even More Than Usual Right Now
- Trump Has Turned Millions of Americans Into Activists
- Exclusive: Trump adviser played key role in pursuit of possible Clinton emails from dark web before election (Gotta love that failed 2018 Virginia GOP U.S. Senate candidate Bert Mizusawa is in that picture.)
- Zuckerberg: Facebook has systems to stop hate speech. Myanmar groups: No, it doesn’t. (“The social network has fueled ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.”)
- The American Economy Isn’t ‘Great Again’ – But It’s Still Solid (“Donald Trump inherited a (relatively) good economy — one with a steadily falling unemployment rate, steadily rising labor-force-participation rate, and low inflation.” Key word – “inherited”; just like Trump’s own money.)
- Conservative Max Boot slams Trump: ‘He’s the most openly racist president of my lifetime’
- GOP fears primary fight will ruin Va. Senate chances (“‘I don’t think there is anybody,’ one veteran Virginia Republican strategist told The Hill when asked whether the party can mount a serious challenge to Kaine. ‘You can’t control the dynamics afoot, and these guys at the race don’t even have close to the fundraising prowess or the ability at that level to deal with someone as effective as Tim Kaine.'”)
- Sen. Kaine talks workforce, immigration with the Northern Virginia Technology Council
- HU students share concerns with Kaine
- Editorial: What constitutes negative campaigning? (“Kaine’s son is 25 — an adult, responsible for himself. Why does he even matter in the Senate race? He’s not the candidate; his father is, and his father has a record that can, and should, be properly debated. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, though. Stewart has proudly boasted that he intends to run a “very vicious and ruthless campaign.” That doesn’t strike us as something to be proud of, especially if it’s not even remotely based on anything dealing with public policy.”)
- Wagner, Hanger signal willingness to back Medicaid expansion – with conditions
- Emmett Hanger: A Pathway from Poverty to Prosperity (“Essentially we need to implement a work component that is a ‘hand up’ approach, rather than punitive; that screens those that may be eligible; provides them needed healthcare (including mental health and substance abuse); provides them the education or skill training they might need and then matches them up with a job; and finally, does not create a disincentive for earning more money.”)
- 400,000 Virginia residents edge closer to Medicaid expansion after key Republican splits with party
- Roanoke man charged with threatening Rep. Bob Goodlatte on Twitter
- Editorial: Big money’s influence in Virginia politics (Another brain-dead editorial by the Republican Times-Disgrace.)
- With massive expansion under way, Virginia becoming a leader in solar energy field
- Virginia Gov. Northam signs “Ashanti Alert” into law for missing, abducted adults
- Former Newport News airport director accuses Daily Press of defamation
- Anger, arrests after deer carcasses dumped near Va. African-American cemetery (Sick.)
- Norfolk launches first “dockless” bikeshare in Hampton Roads
- Virginia Supreme Court refuses to hear Smith Mountain Lake shoreline cases
- Promises are cheap on public housing. Norfolk residents want real commitments.
- Feeling like winter, with some showers and wet snowflakes around the region today
