by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, February 19.
- The world is failing to ensure children have a ‘liveable planet’, report finds (“Children in biggest carbon-emitting nations are healthiest, while those with tiny environmental footprints suffer twofold from poor health and living at the sharp end of the climate crisis”)
- Solar Census: US solar hits record employment as Southeast shines (“The solar industry, which represents 2.6% of overall U.S. electricity generation, already employs twice as many workers as the U.S. coal industry.”)
- Trump Is Trampling Dozens of Laws to Build His Border Wall (“A 15-year-old law allows Trump to ignore any regulation that stands in the way of his border wall.”)
- Federal judges call emergency meeting to discuss crisis at the Justice Department
- Trump’s pardon spree deepens crisis gripping American justice
- Trump pardons Michael Milken, face of 1980s insider trading scandals
- Trump Got Tons of Campaign Cash Before Handing Out Pardon
- Post-impeachment, Trump declares himself ‘chief law enforcement officer’ of America
- President Trump goes on clemency spree, and the list is long
- The Trouble with Donald Trump’s Clemencies and Pardons
- Bernie Kerik Was as Corrupt as They Come—Just Like Trump
- Trump’s Rod Blagojevich commutation is another win for the Fox News Cabinet
- Barr has told those close to Trump he is considering quitting over the president’s tweets about Justice Dept. investigations
- Justice is supposed to be blind. Bill Barr can’t see that.
- “Amusing Ourselves to Death”: News media and the public’s desire to be entertained vs. its need to be informed (“Lessons from Neil Postman’s magnum opus ahead of this year’s elections” Great book; I read it back in 1985.)
- Boy Scouts bankruptcy bid prompts other sex abuse victims to step forward
- The Memo: Bloomberg faces moment of truth
- Nevada Debate Could Be A ‘Make Or Break’ For Bloomberg, Analysts Say
- Poll: Sanders Rises, But Socialism Isn’t Popular With Most Americans
- Limbaugh: Trump advised me to ‘never apologize’ for Buttigieg remarks —
- Buttigieg blasts Trump: My marriage never involved ‘hush money’
- Election Update: Bloomberg’s Super Tuesday Gamble May Be Paying Off
- 5 takeaways from CNN’s town halls with Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar
- Regular Democrats Just Aren’t Worried About Bernie
- Sanders Leads Democratic Primary Field as Biden Slips, WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds
- Why Elizabeth Warren Got Dropped From A Poll Question About General Election Matchups (“Peter Hart, whose firm conducted the poll, told BuzzFeed News that the poll had ‘space and time’ for just five candidate match-ups.” Hmmmm…)
- Sanders surges into national lead in new Post-ABC poll (Sanders 32%-Biden 16%-Bloomberg 14%-Warren 12%-Buttigieg 8%-Klobuchar 7%)
- The Sanders surge is real: Democrats be wary
- Bernie Sanders takes wide lead in California primary, new poll finds
- Bloomberg Campaign Says It’s a Two-Man Race for the Nomination
- Michael Bloomberg Has to Debate Without a Net
- Buttigieg, Sanders separated by thousandths of a point after Iowa recanvass
- Bloomberg would sell business interests if elected president
- Fox Has Been “More Fair”: Why Bernie’s Team Has Had It With MSNBC
- Exclusive: Ahead of 2020 election, a ‘Blue Wave’ is rising in the cities, polling analysis shows
- Bloomberg and Obama: A more ‘complicated’ relationship than the ads suggest
- Klobuchar gets second chance to name Mexico’s president
- There Is a Case for Bloomberg. It’s Just Bleak As Hell.
- Trump campaign hires alum of controversial data company (“Cambridge Analytica was called out by Facebook for misuse of user data and shuttered in 2018.”)
- Monmouth Poll of Virginia Democratic Voters: Bloomberg (22%)-Sanders (22%)-Biden (18%)-Buttigieg (11%)-Klobuchar (9%)-Warren (5%)
- Ahead of Pence Visit, VA Dems Slam Trump’s Broken Promises to Hampton Roads
- Virginia for Warren Announces New Delegate Endorsements
- House, Senate budgets reduce Northam’s free community college plan
- ‘I’m obviously disappointed’: Gov. Northam reacts after lawmakers reject assault weapons ban (Democrats needed Debra Rodman, Cheryl Turpin, Amy Laufer and Missy Cotter Smasal in the State Senate.)
- Virginia’s Amanda Chase raises the political ghost of Russ Potts (Weird comparison – Potts was a moderate Republican, Chase is an extreme/far-right Republican.)
- Virginia Needs a Deep(er) State
- Should Virginia Establish a “Preclearance” Standard?
- Central Virginia Transportation Authority: recipe for more sprawl and traffic? (“With all the attention given to the controversial Coliseum-Navy Hill project, another major tax issue has been flying under the radar screen. HB1541 passed the House of Delegates and is before the Senate.”)
- Virginia inches closer to ‘menstrual equity’ with legislation requiring schools to provide products
- Virginia bills would let utility customers shop around for renewable energy
- Ranked-choice voting may be coming to local elections in Virginia. Here’s how it works. (It’s about time!)
- What Virginia’s New LGBTQ Protections Really Do
- Armed man protests at delegate’s house over proposed Virginia gun ban (This articles reports on a Virginian GOP official openly carrying a weapon in front of the home of Del. Mark Levine (D-45th). Blue Virginia coverage yesterday Patrolling in front of someone’s home with an assault weapon is a threat of violence, intimidation … and we all know it.)
- One setback shouldn’t take away from historic gun control reform coming to Virginia
- A Look at the Faith-Based Arguments at the General Assembly
- Editorial: Why is the General Assembly passing up a half billion dollars for school construction?
- Some Warren campaign volunteers in Virginia show dogged determination
- After Inspiring Confederate Monument Removal Elsewhere, Virginia Cities May Soon Do The Same
- Sources: Councilwoman Kimberly Gray to run for Richmond mayor
- Alexandria city manager proposes 2-cent increase in property tax rate to fund schools, repairs
- The Virginian-Pilot to move headquarters to Newport News (“The Virginian-Pilot, which sold its downtown Norfolk flagship office building where it has told Hampton Roads’ stories for nearly 83 years, is moving its headquarters to Newport News.” Brilliant, eh?)
- Norfolk Southern to cut operations in Roanoke
- Editorial: State moves to protect HRBT waterfowl (“The displacement of 25,000 migratory waterfowl was an avoidable problem, but it appears Virginia will make accommodations to restore their habitat.”)
- Fairfax Connector bus operators might strike again
- Cooler today, cold tomorrow and Friday; light snow late Thursday?
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