by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Labor Day, September 3, 2018.
- Brazil’s National Museum, home to 20 million items, destroyed in fire (Ee gads, that’s awful.)
- Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted (“The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil”)
- Kavanaugh supreme court nomination not ‘normal’, says Senate Democrat (“Amy Klobuchar criticises White House decision to withhold 100,000 pages of records on time as aide to George W Bush”)
- ‘The stakes are astronomical’: Brett Kavanaugh supreme court hearing will be a battle royale
- Democrats Aim to Derail Kavanaugh With Eye on Abortion, Mueller (“Hearing starts Tuesday for Trump’s second Supreme Court choice. Minority party lacks leverage to stop pick to replace Kennedy”)
- How Brett Kavanaugh Would Transform the Supreme Court (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are both illegitimate.)
- Rise Of LGBTQ Candidates Could Usher In A ‘Rainbow Wave’ In 2018
- Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration
- John F. Kerry doesn’t rule out a bid for president in 2020 (Just imagine if Kerry had beaten Bush in 2004, how much better things would have been. Of course, then we wouldn’t have had Barack Obama in 2008, so I guess history works in funny ways…)
- Congress faces September scramble on spending
- Kasich says Republican Party is ‘shrinking’ (Let’s hope!)
- Florida’s lost summers: Toxic algae ‘emergency’ decades in the making
- Omarosa recorded White House conversations with personal phone: Axios
- Juan Williams: Trump’s ‘majority’ is fake (“A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation’s population”)
- How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump’s Clown (“The former mayor’s theatrical, combative style of politics anticipated—and perfectly aligns with—the President’s.”)
- GoFundMe raises thousands to place billboard of Trump’s anti-Cruz tweet in Texas
- Editorial: How workers stand on Labor Day 2018 (“Wages are stagnant…Income inequality has risen…Economic growth is uneven, and that gap between the haves and have-nots is widening, too.”)
- Editorial: Wage growth stagnant despite recovery (And the Republicans are busy making that worse.)
- Delay, Delay, Delay—Legislative Impasse on Redistricting
- Call 911! Dave Brat (#VA07) Needs Shot Against YUCKKY Girl Cooties QUICK!!
- Virginia’s GOP: Party of Crime and Slime
- Senator Tim Kaine visits Harrisonburg
- As students prepare to head back to school, safety is at the forefront of everyone’s mind (Meanwhile, schools continue to be super safe, statistically speaking.)
- Congressional candidate Jennifer Lewis addresses the issues faced by rural communities (“Lewis says she is making an effort to reach those who felt ignored in the past”)
- Cockburn makes campaign stop in Danville, disagrees with Stewart’s take on city
- CSX coal cars derail in Newport News
- Hot and steamy through Friday, at least
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