Mike’s Blog Round-up

DALLAS — Former President Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday. “We’ve got to get gun owners to vote,” Trump said.

Alice Stewart, a CNN political commentator and veteran political adviser who worked on a number of GOP presidential campaigns, has died at age 58, the news network reported Saturday. Police in northern Virginia told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood early Saturday morning and that no foul play was suspected.

The way Jeffery Kytle tells it, he came to Colorado for vacation and left on probation. Twenty-one years ago, the Iowa resident bolted out the back of a Keystone condo when police busted in the front. He was in town for a ski vacation, to blow his buddy’s recent $20,000 casino jackpot, the now-66-year-old said this month.

Colorado students whose families make $90,000 a year or less would be eligible to be reimbursed for two years of in-state tuition at public four-year universities, community colleges and technical schools under a bill awaiting Gov. Jared Polis’ signature. Supporters of the legislation — HB24-1340, passed on the final day of the session — tout it as an important step to improve access to postsecondary education in Colorado.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. While the Gulf of Mexico is a region known for oil, it’s also home to something far less expected. Nestled among offshore oil platforms, about 150 miles from Houston, is one of the healthiest coral reefs in the world: the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Marine researchers who have visited the Flower Garden Banks describe it with awe in their voices.

They’re going to lose “our democracy.”