Kelly Sloan

It’s one of those little historical ironies Great Britain is holding a national election on the Fourth of July. The mood in the United Kingdom seems a bit bleakly apprehensive,

A number of things have absorbed a great deal of the polemical oxygen from the room during the last couple of weeks; important Supreme Court rulings that affirmed equilibrium in

We have had a few days to digest, a little, what happened on the weekend. There remain a lot of questions, many of which will never be answered to any degree of satisfaction. But we can at least start to get a sense of what the assassination attempt on former President Trump has changed in terms of the campaign and the wider national political orbit.

It can generally be conceded we spend far more time than we ought to analyzing vice-presidential candidate picks. That is not to say the selection of a running mate is

On the matter of Kamala Harris choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as running mate, a few observations:

Is anybody taking this presidential election seriously? I mean anybody? Because the candidates certainly do not seem inclined to do so.

I am not in Chicago. I happen to be in Washington D.C., which as you may presume is something of a (relative) ghost town, which makes both the execution of my paying day-job duties and restaurant reservations much easier. The combination of productivity, the unseasonably nice weather and the chance to meet up with some old friends has made this a rather pleasant trip.

So here we are in the midst of a special session, called by Governor Polis for the express purpose of addressing the property tax crisis. As of this writing, that session is not quite over yet, with the Senators taking their turn in the ring. At risk of saying anything prematurely, a few observations to date:Presumably, anyone reading this will have at least a general awareness of how and why we got here. Since Colorado voters repealed the Gallagher Amendment in 2020 residential property assessments increased dramatically. How dramatically? Well, over the next two years those rates rose by anywhere from 20% in some rural counties, to an average of 50% in Douglas County, to as much as 100% in mountain resort towns. A couple short-term fixes were applied here and there in subsequent regular and special legislative sessions, and the voters were offered Proposition HH in 2022, an exercise in fiscal sleight-of-hand that they soundly rejected, but an acceptable permanent solution continued to elude.

Aurora has been getting a bad rap of late. I just returned from holiday in southern Florida with my girlfriend, who happens to live in a rather nice part of southern Aurora. We were attending a wedding, which naturally drew people from many parts of the country; whenever we were asked by anyone where we lived my girlfriend would respond accordingly, and the universal response was one of mild horror and a reference to occupation by Venezuelan gangs. We considered just telling people she was from North Parker.

To anyone thinking this presidential election is going to be about the economy, or immigration, or crime, the environment, health care, the size and role of the executive branch, or,