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The defeat of Denver’s ambitious affordable housing sales tax by voters has generated plenty of reflection in the week since Mayor Mike Johnston and other supporters’ hopes for a narrow passage flickered out. Political activists, observers and even supporters say the proposal suffered from the lack of a clear spending plan that could be explained to voters upfront.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States’s blossoming emergence as a clean energy superpower could be stopped in its tracks by Donald Trump, further empowering Chinese leadership and forfeiting tens of billions of dollars of investment to other countries, according to a new report. Trump’s promise to repeal major climate policies passed during Joe Biden’s presidency threatens to push $80 billion of investment to other countries and cost the US up to $50 billion in lost exports, the analysis found, surrendering ground to China and other emerging powers in the race to build electric cars, batteries, solar and wind energy for the world. “The US will still install a bunch of solar panels and wind turbines, but getting rid of those policies would harm the US’s bid for leadership in this new world,” said Bentley Allan, an environmental and political policy expert at Johns Hopkins University, who co-authored the new study. “The energy transition is inevitable and the future prosperity of countries hinges on being part of the clean energy supply chain,” he said.

The majority of Republicans must either wake up and grow a pair, or acknowledge that they, too, are more than comfortable with the (fraud-heavy) status quo.

Since they’re all for transparency, aren’t they?

Anyone who has managed to evade or escape the Left’s anti-American dogma cannot help but feel the MAGA reverberations and excitations.

Mayor Johnson is too woke to look at the crime problem seriously.