Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Now that the border crisis has migrated into blue cities, the White House cannot avoid addressing a political liability, and the President has dramatically shifted his rhetoric on the border. … Read more
The money train kept rolling for U.S. House hopeful Adam Frisch in the last quarter of 2023. But with erstwhile opponent Lauren Boebert leaving the 3rd Congressional District to run in the 4th, the fundraising dynamics across Colorado’s two largest districts are in for a shakeup. Boebert, the 3rd District’s incumbent, raised $540,000 between Oct. … Read more
How is Kevin McCarthy taking his historic dethroning? It would seem not great, based on the revenge campaign he’s said to be mounting! Politico reports that McCarthy and his allies are “mobilizing to oust the eight GOP lawmakers who joined Democrats to depose him.” Specifically, Brian Walsh, a top ally of the ex-Speaker, “is overseeing an attempt to … Read more
A report this week is likely to add to questions about Mary Lou Retton’s claim that she couldn’t “afford” health insurance — a situation that prompted her daughters to launch an online fundraising campaign that netted more than $459,00 and was supposed to cover the costs of her monthlong hospital stay for a rare and … Read more
For the second time in two months, Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday signed a bill into law that temporarily doubles Colorado’s match of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, boosting the amount of money that will go to working families this year. The new law — the first legislation signed by Polis during the 2024 … Read more
FORT LUPTON — Lauren Boebert landed in fifth place in a straw poll conducted at a 4th Congressional District debate this week, a decidedly middle-of-the-pack showing among the nine Republican candidates who showed up for the event. While the survey of just over 100 Republicans on Thursday at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center is a … Read more
The Wall Street donor class used to rule elections; today not so much, though the fat-cat money men (and women) will have an outsized role in just how long Nikki Haley stays in her race against GOP front-runner Donald Trump. In Haley’s somewhat strange quest for the GOP nomination, she needs big money more than … Read more
Garfield County prosecutors this week filed formal criminal charges against Jayson Boebert, the ex-husband of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, after two separate alleged confrontations with family members in early January, a court supervisor confirmed Thursday. Jayson Boebert was charged with a misdemeanor count of obstructing a police officer and two petty offenses of disorderly conduct … Read more
FORT LUPTON — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert got into the mix with eight fellow Republican contenders in a 4th Congressional District debate Thursday night in this Weld County city, less than a month after she announced she was moving to the eastern side of Colorado — and a new district — to run for Congress … Read more
By Anna Edgerton | Bloomberg Money manager Brian Heywood said he left California for the Seattle area more than a decade ago partly to escape taxes. Now, he fears his current income-tax-free home is headed in California’s direction after introducing levies on capital gains. “The capital gains tax to me is the camel’s nose under … Read more
