Tag: Politics
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Will one unqualified AG replace another? | George Brauchler
Pull quote: From officially encouraging ineligible immigrants to vote, to Colorado Democrats are poised to nominate another attorney general candidate with de minimis relevant credentials or experience. Far from disqualifying, Colorado’s recent voting history mirrors that of America in favoring biography over experience, partisanship over policy, and emphasizing what divides us more than what should…
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Platner and Paxton highlight political character concerns | Eric Sondermann
The last few weeks have been illuminating in the manner of a headlamp pointing the way to some deep, dark, murky netherworld. Graham Platner, a hero to the populist set on the Democratic side, became his party’s Senate nominee in Maine. While across the fields of Texas, MAGA favorite Ken Paxton handily defeated an establishment…
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Rubio gives Iran deal the silent treatment
When President Donald Trump joked at the G7 summit this week that Vice President JD Vance should “be careful” because he would be blaming him if the Iran deal “doesn’t work out,” some officials on stage joined in laughter. Marco Rubio, normally a convivial hype man for the president, stared straight ahead with a somber…
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Trump blames Reflecting Pool woes on vandalism
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool and tried to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired. Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d…
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Trump’s fears about economy undercut U.S. leverage in Iran talks
President Donald Trump said the prospect of global economic collapse was a big reason he signed an interim peace deal with Iran. That admission exposes a key U.S. weakness heading into the next round of talks with Tehran. The memorandum of understanding that Trump signed on Wednesday reopened the Strait of Hormuz and set in…
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Iran talks could shape Vance’s political rise
WASHINGTON/LUCERNE, Switzerland • Vice President JD Vance is poised to take on his biggest role yet on the international stage as President Donald Trump’s chief negotiator to end the three-month war with Iran, a moment that could shape Vance’s prospects as a White House successor. The two nations agreed to a provisional peace agreement on…
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Marx, Bottoms, a primary death wish for Colorado GOP | Dick Wadhams
Colorado Republicans stand on the brink of total irrelevance and embarrassment if they nominate one of the two nonsensical, buffoonish candidates running for governor, Victor Marx and Scott Bottoms. Republicans are already in a very defensive, tenuous position as Democrats have had absolute control of every facet of Colorado state government for the past eight years. Term-limited Gov.…
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Kushner project being developed on disputed land, Albanian villagers say
ZVERNEC, Albania • When Kostaq Konomi approached what he says is his land on the seafront in southern Albania last month, he was met with a barbed wire fence and men in black uniforms who refused him entry. The land, he later learned from news reports, was now part of a luxury resort planned by…
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Judge orders halt to Trump’s ‘censorship’ of park exhibits
BOSTON • A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide because they “do not align with its preferred narrative.” U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston issued a preliminary injunction at the behest…
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CU Regent Wanda James’ brand — under a cloud | Jimmy Sengenberger
For years, CU Regent Wanda James has cultivated a public reputation based on three pillars: marijuana pioneer, business leader, and serial entrepreneur. Now, as one of two Democratic challengers to U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, she’s running on that image. Her campaign biography touts how she and her husband, Scott Durrah, “built Simply Pure, the nation’s…