Blackface:Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing demands for his resignation after someone dug up his 1984 medical school yearbook featuring on Northam’s page a picture of a man in blackface next to someone in a hooded Ku Klux Klan robe. 

Northam admits he was one of the two people, but doesn’t say which. He doesn’t want to say whether he’s the racist on the left or the racist on the right.

  “I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now,” the Democratic governor said in a statement. Was 1984 the stone age?

  Northam’s had a flood of calls for his resignation from Democrats all over the country, including the state’s two democratic senators and four presidential candidates.

  So far, Northam is resisting. He said in his statement, “I recognize that it will take time and serious effort to heal the damage this conduct has caused.” 

The Drugstore: Federal authorities are crowing over the interception of a Mexican produce truck loaded with fentanyl at Arizona’s Port of Nogales crossing.

Buried under piles of cucumbers, were 254 pounds of fentanyl, worth around $3.5 million, and nearly 395 pounds of methamphetamine, valued at $1.1 million.

  Good work, but it supports critics of President Trump’s border wall who point out that most illegal drugs cone into the country at official points of entry.

  Or, straight from an American drug company. The State of Massachusetts is suing the family that controls Purdue Pharma, claiming they enriched themselves by  feeding the national addiction to the addictive painkiller OxyContin. The suit says the Sackler family paid itself hundreds of millions of dollars while pressuring its sales force to push the drug through doctors prescribing it for patients.

  Purdue Pharma, in a statement, said the complaint is “part of a continuing effort to single out Purdue, blame it for the entire opioid crisis, and try the case in the court of public opinion rather than the justice system.”

Book Tour:  A federal judge warned President Trump’s indicted friend Roger Stone to stop treating the publicity over his legal troubles “like a book tour.” He’ll step in front of any camera pointed in his direction and speak his mind. Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in court yesterday, “This is a criminal proceeding and not a public relations campaign,” and urged Stone not to argue his case “on the talk circuit.” 

Cherokee Nation: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who’s running for her party’s presidential nomination, has privately apologized to the Cherokee Nation for taking a DNA test to prove she’s part American Indian. The results angered Indian leaders.

  Warren’s test said she may have had an Indian ancestor six to 10 generation ago, but the whole issue of Indian heritage is just too sensitive. If she has any Indian heritage, she doesn’t have enough. She stuck her foot in buffalo dung years ago, identifying herself as part Indian. President Trump ridicules her as “Pocahontas.” She can’t get away with saying she’s Indian, but he gets away with that.

If You Build It:The electronics giant Foxconn says that after a conversation between its president and President Trump, the company will go ahead and build a new plant in Wisconsin. Just a few days ago Foxconn said the economics of it didn’t make sense for them. They say they will ultimately hire 13,000 people.

The Finish Line:As she suggested nearly two weeks ago, American skier Lindsey Vonn says she’s retiring next week after she skis her last race at the World Championships in Are, Sweden.

  The 34-year-old has severely damaged knees and doesn’t have the control she once had to stay at the top.She will retire as the winningest female skier in world history with 82 World Cup victories. She ends her career just five wins away from breaking the all-time record set by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark. 

15 Minutes:After stealing the show from the stars at the Golden Globes red carpet arrivals, the “Fiji Water Girl” is suing the company who made her famous.

  Model Kelleth Cuthbert, whose real name is Kelly Steinbach, had a one-night gig carrying a tray of Fiji water bottles as the stars arrived. She was the walk-on who became an instant star mugging for the cameras.

  While Cuthbert became an internet phenomenon, Fiji saw a good thing and nearly immediately printed standing cardboard cutouts of her to place at stores that sell their water. Her lawsuit claims that Fiji had no contract or authority to use her likeness.

  The company says Cuthbert’s suit doesn’t hold water. 

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