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Joel Connelly

Protection still crucial for grizzly recovery

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST JACKSON, Wyo. -- Once abundant from the Great Plains to the Pacific, just two sizable grizzly population centers remain in the lower 48, in Glacier National Park and adjoining wilderness...

Guest Commentary: Vetting names for President Obama's cabinet

If Democrats clean up in November, Gov. Chris Gregoire will ask Barack Obama if he will let her "vet some names" for the often-overlooked and often-incompetently filled Cabinet job of U.S. Secretary of Energy. The reason...

Crowd bubbles over with enthusiasm on a glorious night

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST DENVER -- No lobbyist party at this week's Democratic convention approached the mood of celebration and good cheer among ordinary folk riding home from Barack Obama's acceptance speech on...

Connelly: Obama transfixes train crowd

BY JOEL CONNELLY DENVER - No lobbyist party at this week's Democratic convention approached the mood of celebration and good cheer among ordinary folk riding home from Barack Obama's acceptance speech on the F line of...

Connelly: Convention highs and lows

By JOEL CONNELLY DENVER - In the last 20 years, Democratic presidential nominees have vetted convention speeches in a blender of banality, insisting that the leader be ceaselessly celebrated with the same words used to...

Connelly: Hillary erases bad blood

BY JOEL CONNELLY DENVER - With a generous, powerful speech to the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Hillary Clinton erased the bad blood of a lengthy nomination battle, made the case for Barack Obama and raised the...

Energy debate moves front and center

DENVER -- As Democratic leaders at their national convention pledged to balance new energy sources with careful drilling of public lands, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke of an obligation to protect the Earth as "God's...

Connelly in Iowa - Biden hopes 4th place good enough

Editor's note: P-I columnist Joel Connelly is in Iowa, where he'll file dispatches between now and the Jan. 3 caucuses. Here he looks at Delaware Sen. Joe Biden's longshot campaign. The subtitle of a noon hour campaign...

Obama responds to attacks, but still falls short

"Obama Campaign Response to McCain Attack on Obama Record on Afghanistan." The news releases are a backhanded, revealing statement about the presidential race and Obama's campaign. During a period of time when many thought...

Across state, Rossi shows his other side

By JOEL CONNELLY P-I COLUMNIST IN A ONE-PARTY state, well-connected consultants and pro-government interest groups often clean up, their appetites spawning misconduct that must be cleaned up by the FBI. In Washington, Democrats...