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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has told a source he now believes it is not him in a racist yearbook photo and that he has no recollection of taking the photo, according a top Virginia Democratic source who spoke to the governor on Saturday. Source: CNN

A series of prominent Democrats demanded Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation on Friday, excoriating him for appearing in a racist yearbook photo showing one person dressed in blackface and another in the KKK’s signature white hood and robes. Source: CNN

A medical school yearbook page of Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam shows a photograph of two people, one in blackface and one in a KKK hood and robe. Source: CNN

CNN’s Don Lemon reacts to a medical school yearbook page of Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, showing a photograph of two people, one in blackface and one in a KKK hood and robe. Source: CNN

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, dismissed a House proposal for sweeping election reform by attacking the specific proposal in a much larger bill that would make Election Day a paid federal holiday as a “power grab that’s smelling more and more like what it is.” Source: CNN

Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat who rose to prominence as Newark’s charismatic and ambitious mayor, announced Friday that he is running for president. Source: CNN

Dear Sen. Mitch McConnell, Source: CNN

After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed a House bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday, CNN’s John Avlon looks at how the proposal would affect voter turnout. Source: CNN

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The temperature rose to a warm 9 degrees last Saturday afternoon. The sun was bright, the snowpack mostly gone. My wife and I trudged up some steps into our backyard and combined a few pieces of dry seasoned wood to a pile of semi-frozen brush and some broken pieces of old stump I had chopped in the fall and left …