Boulder Daily Camera editorial: Replacing U.S. attorneys is not a scandal
The Justice Department asked 46 U.S. attorneys to resign Friday.
Some Democrats squawked when the dismissals were announced. “The independence of the Justice Department is at risk,” huffed Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat. The dismissals, though, are routine. U.S. attorneys serve at the president’s pleasure. When the White House changes hands, they’re usually replaced.
Former President Bill Clinton asked for the resignations of 93 U.S. attorneys shortly after he took office. Former President Barack Obama gradually replaced GOP-nominated U.S. attorneys in 2009.
The most recently dismissed knew the day after the election they surely would lose their jobs. There’s no scandal here.
Divided appeals court overturns defendant’s $350,000 restitution obligation
Michael Karlik
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Updated 48 minutes ago
Colorado’s second-highest court overturned a defendant’s obligation to pay nearly $350,000 in crime victim restitution last week because an Arapahoe County judge issued the restitution order beyond the legal deadline. The divided decision of a three-judge Court of Appeals panel...
Health insurers drift leftward in campaign donations even as they seek to sway GOP
Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner
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Updated 55 minutes ago
Insurance lobbyists are working hard on Capitol Hill in an attempt to sway centrist Republicans into their camp as party leadership expresses strong skepticism toward extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies. As these lobbyists take meetings with GOP staffers and members, however,...
US Rep. Lauren Boebert: On representing Colorado, working with Trump and releasing the Epstein files
Thelma Grimes
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Updated 3 hours ago
For years, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s name has become a shorthand for controversy in her home state and in the nation’s capital. Recently, the outspoken Colorado Republican has drawn rare praise from some of her fiercest critics, particularly after breaking...
New jaguar spotted in Arizona points to progress in endangered species’ recovery | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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Updated 6 days ago
ARIZONA New jaguar spotted in wild The spots gave it away. Just like a human fingerprint, the rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique so researchers knew they had a new animal on their hands after reviewing images captured by...
8 exemplars to guide us into the new year | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
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Updated 5 days ago
It started as a one-off in my first year of writing this regular column. To ring in the new year back in the eventful year of 2020, I offered a shoutout to eight Coloradans who served as models of how...
Raids, pushback and TdA indictments defined Denver’s immigration story in 2025
Nico Brambila
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Updated 2 days ago
The Trump administration’s push for a large-scale, deportation effort — built around campaign warnings about Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan prison gang that established a foothold in Colorado — collided with the realities on the ground in Denver, where raids...
Denver’s budget deficit shaped 2025 news coverage
Deborah Grigsby
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Updated 2 days ago
It was a year of big goals on a tight budget for the Mile High City, where Mayor Mike Johnston’s announcement of a $200 million city budget deficit dominated the news coverage. Facing a $50 million gap in its 2025...
Colorado podcaster who has called for political foes to be executed joins GOP primary for governor
Ernest Luning
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Updated 2 days ago
Joe Oltmann, the conservative Colorado podcaster who has repeatedly called for Colorado’s top elected officials to be executed and whose uncorroborated claims that the 2020 election was rigged spawned multiple defamation lawsuits, declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for...
‘The canary in the democracy mine is local journalism’ | Vince Bzdek
Vince Bzdek
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Updated 2 days ago
Colorado could do a lot more to save newspapers – and democracy – in rural areas By Vince Bzdek As another new year and another legislative session dawn for Colorado, it’s a good time to ask what the absolute most...
Colorado’s national correspondent recounts violent KKK march in D.C. | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright
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Updated 6 days ago
by Rachael Wright Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: “I had forgotten about the Ku Klux Klan,” said Ann Downing Schmidt, The Colorado Statesman’s Washington, D.C., correspondent. In a commentary piece published in The Statesman, Schmidt described trying to make the ten-minute drive from...
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If the Colorado State Patrol has to start its St. Patrick’s Day extra enforcement of driving under the influence of alcohol offenses a week before the holiday, it might mean we’ve got a problem. That’s exactly what officials at the State Patrol and the Colorado Department of Transportation did, however. Starting March 10, the State […]
Gorsuch view on scope of Second Amendment a judicial mystery
Despite strong endorsements from some gun rights advocates, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has a slim appeals court record on the subject – a record that leaves his views a mystery on how far constitutional firearms rights extend. The National Rifle Association notes favorably a 2012 case in which Gorsuch wrote for the 10th U.S. […]