John Stossel interviews Colorado Gov. Jared Polis

 

[VIDEO] If the Democratic Party had candidates like this running throughout the country instead of the direction they seem to be going on, I could be a Democrat. In politics we need someone who has some elements of common sense and Jared Polis has got it.

On one end we got Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who has run Florida very well - of course Presidential campaign not withstanding. And then we got a not very doctrinaire Colorado Governor Polis who probably has positions that some might consider very Republican.

However, does governing well really need to have a label? Do Republicans govern better than Democrats or vice-versa?

Oh no, not Denver too!!!

I've put a lot of focus during the past month on Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota and Atlanta, Georgia and New York City. Places where there were some unrest around the nation after the initial George Floyd riots the last weekend in May. One could say society still hasn't settled down in the last two months from that initial shock and now it's just going to the next level.

Denver, Colorado is a place I've only visited once in a nominally blue state. It's a place I wouldn't mind visiting or living in once I decide that Chicago just isn't it anymore. Too bad I see this:

Steffan Tubbs says Colorado residents may not realize Denver’s decline in the wake of the George Floyd protests.

He plans to change that with his fourth documentary film..

The host of “The Steffan Tubbs Show,” heard from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on 710 KNUS in Denver, is putting together a new film capturing Denver in the Black Lives Matter era. His documentary “Denver in Decay” chronicles the violence slamming the city in recent months.

Crime in Denver is surging as it is in other cities in the wake of the Floyd protests and riots.

HiT reached out to Tubbs, a four-time winner of the Edward R. Murrow award for national reporting, to learn more about “Denver in Decay” and why Denver reporters have seriously dropped the ball at a critical time in the city’s history..

I hate to see this is the future of many of our major cities. Since I mention New York City how about this from Tucker Carlson's FOX News program earlier this week [VIDEO]

WHat happens in NYC matters? And in our other large cities also. The common thread is increasingly becoming how they're governed and why the issues of crime are increasingly centered in them.

h/t Instapundit

Southwest geography

[VIDEO] Still uploading video from many years ago taking the Southwest Chief. Today I just want to show this video of my train in 2005 going through the desert between Colorado and New Mexico (or it could be New Mexico) I just don't remember.

This video which I uploaded by lbj79us on YouTube probably had an echo from many years ago as part of this long ago footage was used on my first YouTube video. It was an attempt at a "Lumiere" style vid which seemed popular amongst videobloggers during the mid-2000. And certainly around the time when YouTube was becoming established. Here it is below. [VIDEO]

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