Jim Morrison

Army Corps plans to fast-track infrastructure priorities, including in Virginia • Virginia Mercury Plan’s initiatives include overhauling the regulatory process to eliminate delays in permitting projects, empowering commanders to “take informed risks” to advance key water resources programs and con...

Army Corps plans to fast-track infrastructure priorities, including in Virginia virginiamercury.com/2026/02/27/a...

An Uninsurable Country States must take action to fend off the looming home insurability crisis.

A sobering report on insurance. www.nrdc.org/resources/un...

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Future Mayoral Candidate, Delinquent on Taxes for Years, Forgiven Rent as Mall Closes Tony Brothers closed his restaurant in December after the city forgave $236,000 in back rent and he paid more than two years of delinquent taxes.

Future Mayoral Candidate, Delinquent on Taxes for Years, Forgiven Rent as Mall Closes
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Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

omfg this guy

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico

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The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite

The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

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My first story for FOIA and Find Out is the tale of Brothers restaurant in Norfolk. In October, the City Council voted to forgive up to $236,000 in back rent for the restaurant, owned by well-known NBA referee and potential mayoral candidate Tony Brothers.

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

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Q: What do you tell Americans who are concerned that repealing the endangerment finding comes at a host to public health and the environment based on science?

TRUMP: I tell them don't worry about it. This was all a scam. They'll have more money to spend for healthcare.

More money to spend from the diseases incubated in a warming climate and the respiratory ailments caused by air pollution.

You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me!
It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

Loss of green smelter highlights Kentucky’s need for clean electricity Century Aluminum chose Oklahoma, not Kentucky, for a new smelter. Some say it’s a "wake-up call" for the Bluegrass State to modernize – and decarbonize –…

A giant aluminum smelter recently decided to locate in Oklahoma rather than Kentucky. Why?

OK has cheap wind power. KY is stuck with increasingly expensive fossil power.

This is nuts.

Air Pollution Goes Back Way Further Than You Think Thousands of years ago, humans were adding lead fumes and other pollutants to the air

Ah, back to the good old days of pollution fog rolling in and killing people. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Air Pollution Goes Back Way Further Than You Think Thousands of years ago, humans were adding lead fumes and other pollutants to the air

Just a reminder that dirty air kills. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Injured Virginia teacher deserves every penny of $10 million verdict • Virginia Mercury Thoughts from Mister Roger’s neighborhood: quick hits by your intrepid Virginia Mercury columnist, Roger Chesley.

Injured Virginia teacher deserves every penny of $10 million verdict virginiamercury.com/2026/02/05/i...

Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home

Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

I couldn't string sentences together yesterday, Maybe that's a sign that I shouldn't have been spared when all my fantastic colleagues who unfairly lost their jobs pushed through their grief to write beautiful notes about their careers and the situation at The Washington Post. The health team lost 8 out of 13 reporters yesterday despite health listed as part of The Post's new pared down focus. Just six months after becoming an editor and having the honor to lead an all-star team covering federal health agencies and public health, I have to go back to reporting because there are barely any health reporters left to edit. I'll say more about the reporters we lost later today, but as a team, we did everything we were supposed to do under the vision for The Post to be a digital innovator that breaks news, offers hard-hitting accountability and directly address reader concerns. We landed exclusives on the CDC director's firing, plans to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule, projections for steep ACA marketplace rate increases and more. We avoided dutiful iterative stories and covered storylines such as the expiration of enhanced ACA premiums with smart targeted angles that were widely read. We broke the mold of a traditional newspaper with clever formats including a pop-up newsletter and live chats to help readers navigate new restrictions on coronavirus vaccines, a quiz to understand new dietary guidelines and vertical videos to showcase reporter expertise. The Metro section where I started my career (and offers a clear reason for millions of potential subscribers to pay for us instead of or in addition to other national outlets!) is hollowed out. Reporters around the world wiped out after the owner set a vision for international relevance. A sports department home to journalistic legends shuttered. And so much more bleeding across the entire newsroom.

The Washington Post gutted the health team which I helped to lead despite our stories being among the most widely read, impactful and adept at reaching new audiences.

wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

As a freelancer, I wrote the inaugural Climate Solutions story in 2018 and a number of other climate stories since for The Post. This is indeed a huge loss.

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months