The Republican Party has absolutely no right to capitalize on racism with a president stating that both sides of the issue in Charlottesville, Virginia were responsible for the violence and death there. This is a dialogue for the Democrats to have to clearly delineate the past from the present and the future.

Maybe the Republicans need to pass more estate tax laws instead of supporting a president that wants the USA to capitulate it’s leadership to communist Russia, while dismantling the infrastructure of the USA over a stupid border wall.

January 31, 2019
By Dominic Adams

Flint – Congratulations, (click here) people of Flint – you’re living through the coldest Jan. 31 the city has ever seen in recorded history.

The coldest temperature the city recorded on Jan. 31 was -8 degrees in 1963, according to the National Weather Service.

So far on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019 the temps have dipped to -14.

A record was also broken on Wednesday, Jan. 30.

The record-low, max temperature was 8 degrees and set in 1951.

Flint broke the record for the lowest max temperature when it never got warmer than 2 degrees on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.

“One important thing was that it was shortly after midnight,” when the record was broken, according to Meterologist Steve Considine. “Throughout the daytime in Flint the temperature never broke zero.”...

January 31, 2019
By Ron Fonger

Flint - Second-shift workers at General Motors' Flint Engine Operations (click here) are heading back to their jobs Thursday, Jan. 31, while other GM facilities in mid-Michigan will remain idled for now.

GM issued a news release Thursday, saying the engine plant -- one of six facilities to shut down in the region on Wednesday, Jan. 30 -- will resume operations, while second-shift employees at Flint Assembly, Flint Metal Center, Flint Tool & Die, Bay City Powertrain and Saginaw Metal Castings Operations remain off the job for the time being.

GM was among auto manufacturers in Michigan to temporarily halt some operations Wednesday in response to a fire at Consumers Energy’s natural gas compressor station north of Detroit.

The fire initially cut the gas flow from the station, putting Consumers' customers at risk of brief service interruptions in subzero temperatures and prompting appeals for conservation to residential and business customers....

This was going on at VMI? Wow. How did he ever get to be Virginia Governor? His credentials from VMI?

This isn't acceptable. It isn't acceptable from a sitting governor or the institute of which he was educated. There is a lot explaining to do and VMI needs to be reviewed for policies that allow this kind of behavior. This is astounding to me. I cannot believe VMI allowed such horrible racism on it's campus. How many minorities have graduated from that university? How many were enrolled with Northam?

What troubles me the more I look at this mess, Virginia was a member of the confederacy during the civil war. As a matter of fact, Richmond was the capital of the confederacy. I believe there is a bigger problem than what appears. This was condoned by a very prestigious military academy in the USA and it has far deeper roots than simply bad taste.

I am worried there is a culture from the past that is still held in esteem at VMI. I find it hard to believe this is simply an outliar from VMI. If it is an outliar and the governor is a real jerk, then it ends with him, but, this appears in VMI's yearbook. Every yearbook has an editorial staff and this staff looked the other way and/or thought it a really great photo. That means it is institutionalized. That is the real issue here. Why was this simply tolerated as boys being boys. This is really surprising.

February 1, 2019

By Marie Albiges and Gordon Rago

Norfolk - A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook (click here) shows him and another person in racist costumes — one wearing blackface and one a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, though it was not clear which person was the future governor.

The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library, comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated.

On the half-page set aside for Northam, there is a headshot of him in a jacket and tie, a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and a third of him sitting casually on the ground, leaning against a convertible.

The fourth photo on the half-page has two people, one wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, the other with his face painted black. The person with the black face is also wearing a white hat, black jacket, white shirt with a bow tie and plaid pants. Both are holding canned drinks....