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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 DelawareSen. Joe Biden's longshot campaign. The subtitle of a noon hour campaign...
"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...
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...