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<\/p>\nYesterday, Colorado Public Radio News published thefirst photo of the first bud (at leasst in eighty years) on the Camp Amache rose. It is pink. I cropped the photo so it would fit here. I was deeply touched.\u00a0 \u00a0I’m looking forward to seeing it after it opens.<\/p>\n
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CPR News – Why two CPR News journalists are in Europe with Colorado\u2019s National Guard<\/a> The Conversation – He\u2019s Australia\u2019s 31st prime minister. So who is Anthony Albanese?<\/a> NM Political Report – In light of drought, NM congresswomen introduce bills focused on water and science<\/a> Food For Thought Yesterday, Colorado Public Radio News published thefirst photo of the first bud (at leasst in eighty years) on the Camp Amache rose. It is pink. I cropped the photo so it would fit here. I was deeply touched.\u00a0 \u00a0I’m looking forward to seeing it after it opens. Cartoon – Short Takes – CPR News – […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3814,3704,3723,3781,3805,4544,4886,3831],"class_list":["post-47950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-australia","tag-cartoon","tag-climate-change","tag-elections","tag-ukraine","tag-water","tag-women","tag-world","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nQuote – Colorado\u2019s Army and Air National Guard units are just some of the 1,200 Guard members from six states \u2014 Maryland, which has a state partnership with Estonia, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia \u2014 taking part in this exercise. In total, more than 3,400 U.S. military and 5,100 allied service members are spending this month participating in Defender and various other exercises, with names like Swift Response, Iron Wolf, Flaming Thunder and Summer Shield, across Eastern Europe…. Now, the U.S. military will be the first to tell you that Defender is unrelated to what\u2019s happening in Ukraine (and the former Foreign Service officer in me would agree with that). American troops rotate, train and exercise regularly across the region as part of the nation\u2019s relationship with Europe…. Yet, this annual exercise has taken on added significance \u2014 to reporters like me, and readers like you, and possibly the people of Estonia too \u2014 because of what\u2019s happening in Ukraine.
\nClick through for story.<\/a> It’s a good day to be a Coloradan Despite Lauren Boebert (and Doug Lamborn), we have reasons to take pride in our state. (And it has some gorgeous phptps pf Tallinn.)<\/p>\n
\nQuote – To continue the slow burn theme, if Albanese is to be believed, his ambition for leadership formed late. Those who reach leadership positions are typically consumed with an aspiration for the top job from early in their parliamentary careers \u2014 if not before. They are fuelled by a sense of their own prime-ministerial destiny. Albanese is different. On his telling, it was only in 2013, on the defeat of Rudd\u2019s second government, that he first entertained thoughts of becoming leader. Until then he had contented himself with the role of \u201ccounsellor and kingmaker\u201d.
\nCLick through for background<\/a>. I won’t promise that this will be my last article on the Australian election – I hadn’t planned having another one, but I think this has merit. I am convinced that the so-called “fire in the belly” which so many pundits say leaders need is actually a bad thing if one wants the best possible leadership.<\/p>\n
\nQuote – \u201cWe know that our farmers and our communities are struggling to meet their water needs,\u201d U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat representing the state\u2019s 1st Congressional District, said during a press conference on Thursday. \u201cAnd the pieces of legislation that we introduced this week will be game changers to help address those needs, put resources into the hands of our communities, and to address the long term water security of our communities.\u201d
\nClick through for details of the proposals<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course we all knew that getting the right women into the right offices would be beneficial to everyone.<\/p>\n
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