Tough Penalties

While the wolves themselves cost nothing, the planes to surveil them, the crates to transport them and the creation of the plan to manage them were not free. Those are some of the expenses incurred by Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program, which has cost $4.8 million since voters in 2020 mandated the return of the apex predator to the state, according to a spreadsheet of spending obtained from Colorado Parks and Wildlife via a public records request. Costs have remained under the amount appropriated to the program by state lawmakers, but are almost twice the amount estimated to the voters who elected to reintroduce the native species. Spending on the program started years before the first capture of wolves from Oregon and their release in central Colorado in December.

The Nuggets recently posted back-to-back overtime victories and my immediate takeaway was simple: They owe Nikola Jokic an apology. Denver is off to a clunky start. Entering Friday night, Jokic, the reigning MVP, was averaging a career-high 31.5 points on 39 minutes per game. Nobody cares more about winning than Jokic. But this roster is making him selfish.

Once the polls close on Nov. 5, the path to either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump taking the oath of office will still take several more weeks. There is a detailed process in place to ensure the ballots are counted accurately and that state and federal officials properly determine who won the most electoral college votes. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Here are the key dates that matter for after this Election Day: November 7: State certification of results begins Once votes are counted, it’s up to the state election officials to certify that the results are accurate.

In 2016, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got more than 132,000 votes across the pivotal swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, helping Donald Trump eke out victories in those battlegrounds—and with them the election—by a margin of roughly 77,000 votes. Eight years later, the Democrats have a plan to prevent her from helping lift Trump to victory again. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] For the first time, the party has built a war room devoted to tracking and attempting to discredit third-party candidates.

On Friday afternoon, with only a few days left in the presidential race, the federal agencies that help safeguard American elections issued a warning to voters about a video that had been circulating online. It appeared to show immigrants voting illegally in Georgia, and U. S. intelligence officials had concluded that it was the latest in a series of fakes produced by “Russian influence actors.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “This Russian activity is part of Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions among Americans,” read the statement from the FBI and two other federal agencies, who warned that Russia would continue to creating and spreading these fakes even in the weeks and months after the elections.

Few voters are as easily overlooked as Americans living outside the United States. This population–of émigres, military personnel, dual citizens, and people born outside the U. S. to American parents–is both disparate and elusive. It is thought to number at least 4.4 million people, some 2.8 million of whom are eligible to vote in U.