by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, December 28.
- On land, Australia’s rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it’s worse. (Disastrous.)
- ‘Block the Impact of Religion’: China Sends Muslim Children to Boarding Schools
- India’s Muslims and activists face mass arrests, beatings amid unrest over citizenship law
- Vehicle Bomb Kills Scores In Somalia
- The Growing Climate Risks Scientists Uncovered in the 2010s (“A decade of ice, ocean and atmospheric studies found systems nearing dangerous tipping points. As the evidence mounted, countries worldwide began to see the risk.”)
- Even as the U.S. and China agree to trade truce, they are edging toward partial economic divorce
- Mozambique Is Racing To Adapt To Climate Change. The Weather Is Winning
- Bizarre Fortunes Flourish as World’s Richest Gain $1.2 Trillion
- The 2010s Were the End of Normal
- Trump condemned for tweets pointing to name of Ukraine whistleblower (Trump just violated the law and obstructed justice.)
- How Will History Books Remember the 2010s? (Not well – at all.)
- The 2010s Were an Economic Tragedy (“The key mistakes that brought us a decade of slow, quiet failure.”)
- Trump’s quest to shatter GOP economics reached its peak in 2019
- A Stirring of Conscience in the Senate (“At least one Republican, Lisa Murkowski, wants the Trump impeachment trial to be more than a test of party loyalty. Others should follow.”)
- Congress Wants to Force Trump’s Hand on Human Rights in China and Beyond
- Blumenthal: Five to 10 Republicans have ‘severe misgivings’ about McConnell strategy
- Federal judge denies bid to restore 98,000 voters in U.S. state of Georgia
- Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID law
- Biden says he would not comply with a Senate subpoena in the impeachment trial of President Trump
- Here are some New Year’s resolutions for the media and politicians (“The media should pledge to stop describing Republican obstruction and bad behavior as ‘partisan differences’ or ‘partisan squabbling.’ Let’s identify who is responsible for the deterioration in tone and denigration of democratic institutions…Political reporters should vow to stop obsessing over white, non-college-educated men in the Rust Belt. “)
- Democratic Insiders Are Taking Bernie “Very Seriously” (“As Warren fundraising falters, Democratic insiders are reportedly warming to the progressive senator.”)
- Regulating Big Tech was mostly talk in 2019 — expect the same in 2020 (“Facebook, Alphabet, Apple and Amazon remain in a holding pattern as revenue continues to pile up, and stock prices and market values soar”)
- McGrath files to challenge McConnell in Senate race
- Don Imus, Racist Radio Show Host, Dead At 79 (Racist, anti-Semite, etc.)
- Navy SEALs who turned in Gallagher: He is ‘freaking evil’
- Make No Mistake. Edward Gallagher Will Be a Star of the Republican Presidential Campaign. (Speaking of evil.)
- Trump has appointed judges at a breakneck speed. More are coming.
- Murder trials. War crimes. Drug abuse. The Navy SEALs want to redeem themselves.
- Legislation to Fix the Virginia Beach Tragedy Fund is Now Law
- How Ralph Northam came back from the political dead (“Most potent, it helped that he set himself an agenda on racial equity and pursued it single-mindedly. Scarcely a week or month has passed without Mr. Northam visiting a racially significant site, seeking out counsel from black leaders or announcing an initiative to advance racial justice. He hired Virginia’s, and possibly the nation’s, first state director of diversity, equity and inclusion. He established a commission to comb state law for racist language and provisions, much of it left over from the Jim Crow era. He ordered measures to expand access to state contracts for women- and minority-owned firms, to which less than 3 percent of state contracts were awarded a decade ago. He set up a commission to recommend reforms in the way black history is taught in Virginia’s public schools.”)
- The telling conservative backlash to a Virginia zoning reform proposal, explained (“Market economics vs. suburban identity politics.”)
- Virginia Senate gains two political outsiders and friends (“Democrat Ghazala F. Hashmi and Republican Jen A. Kiggans hope to find common ground.”)
- Finally addressing maternal and infant mortality rates in Virginia
- Democratic Gun Control Legislation May Bar Guns From State Capitol
- Democrats Should Vote NO on the Flawed Redistricting Amendment to Virginia’s Constitution
- Virginia’s green wave: How money played into the 2019 election
- Why Does the Misnamed Virginia Clean Economy Act Propose Slow Walking the Transition Away from Electricity Generated by Fracked Gas?
- Virginia House Bills Introduced to Eliminate “Balance Billing,” Remove Robert E. Lee Statue, Hold Special Election in Case of Tie, Ditch Photo ID, Join National Popular Vote Compact, etc.
- Speaker-Designee Eileen Filler-Corn Announces Additional Staff Appointments
- Signer reflects on polarizing time in Charlottesville politics (“As he transitions out of public service, Signer said he doesn’t have plans to run for office again. He’s going to focus on his family and day job as legal counsel for app developer WillowTree. His next project is a book about the events of 2017 and what lessons can be learned from the rally.”)
- Virginia School District To Give Students One Day Off Per Year For ‘Civic Engagement’
- Barnard officials receiving ‘abhorrent and viciously racist’ robocalls related to Tessa Majors killing
- Report: Slavery Museum in Richmond Would Generate Millions
- Governor proposes $101 million for new innovation center at Radford University
- Newport News police officer kills suspect accused of abusing 911 after officers hit with stun gun during attempted arrest
- A pleasant Saturday, then turning showery through Monday
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