© Courtesy of Ridge Vineyards Local Getaways: Why the Santa Cruz Mountains Offer the Escape to Nature We All Need Right Now In my seven years of living in Northern California, I had always thought of the Santa Cruz Mountains, which stretch along the peninsula just south of San Francisco, […]
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Cala de la Cruz is a young Colombian brand designing dynamic, graphic and playful swim and resortwear. Here, WWD showcases the up-and-coming brand. Designer: Carolina López Cruz is the founder and creative director of Cala de la Cruz, originally from Cali, Colombia, her passion for textile and fashion design led […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) complained on Fox News on Monday that he was taunted during a photo op at the U.S.-Mexico border last week. In the footage from the trip, Cruz pointed into the bushes near the Rio Grande and spoke of unseen smugglers on the other side. “Just a few […]
When there was flooding in Midland County last year, Michigan’s senators went to the area to survey the damage. Oregon’s senators visited places that were hit by major wildfires and have been pushing for more assistance. Louisiana senators regularly tour hurricane storm damage in their state. But when Texas was […]
Screenshot: Conan Nobody likes Ted Cruz. Technically, enough people in Texas like the variously cruel, bigoted, sexist, and downright reprehensible things that Ted Cruz stands for to keep electing him to the U.S. Senate, but, as former Senate colleague (and guy with his own P.R. issues) Al Franken once wrote, […]
The New York Times Texas Crisis Exposes a Nation’s Vulnerability to Climate Change Even as Texas struggled to restore electricity and water over the past week, signs of the risks posed by increasingly extreme weather to America’s aging infrastructure were cropping up across the country. The week’s continent-spanning winter storms […]
As millions of Texans were huddling in their homes enduring days without heat or water, their junior senator, Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzOn The Money: What’s next for Neera Tanden’s nomination GOP signals Biden AG pick will come under pressure over Cuomo Manchin to oppose Biden’s pick of Neera Tanden […]
Three weeks before Sen. Ted Cruz embarked on his ill-fated Cancun trip to escape the aftermath of Texas’s devastating winter storm, the elite K-12 Houston private school attended by his two daughters emailed a Covid warning to parents about international travel. The bottom line: St. John’s School students who travel […]
“Senator Cruz was playing politics in 2012, trying to make himself look like the biggest conservative in the world,” Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said in 2017. “What I said at the time, both to him and to everyone else, was if you represent a coastal state, don’t do […]
Trevor Noah and The Daily Show took a jaundiced look tonight at the weather and public health crisis in Texas, where people are melting snow for water. “The saddest part is that one poor Texan had to travel 800 miles just to get his water and electricity.” That Texan, of […]
The Guardian Ted Cruz flies to Cancun as millions of Texans freeze in the dark Texas senator boarded flight on Wednesday nightPower out for millions after snowstorm hits Cruz’s home state Ted Cruz checks in for a flight at Cancun International Airport after a backlash over his family vacation on […]
Public outrage has mounted in recent days as officials in Texas have sought to deflect blame for the state’s lack of preparedness for the storms — and Cruz, a prominent Republican figure widely seen as a potential 2024 presidential contender, immediately became an object of scorn for Texans already incensed […]
Yet that’s exactly what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) chose to do. While hospitals around the state lost power and were forced to evacuate patients, homes went dark and frozen water pipes burst, icy roads forced terrible choices between risking the cold at home or chancing the journey to power and […]
Stringer/Reuters Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has offered a stunning explanation for flying out to Cancun on Wednesday night as his home state literally froze to death: I was being a “good dad.” “With school canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends,” he said in […]
Meghan McCain compares Ted Cruz to Marie Antoinette for Cancun trip as ‘People are freezing to death’ (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) Ted Cruz was compared to Marie Antoinette for jetting to Cancun during the deadly winter storm pounding Texas and now faces calls for his resignation. The senator from Texas flew […]
Earlier this month, a fascist mob attacked the Capitol building leaving five people dead. The group was incited by Donald Trump but also his enablers in Congress like Ted Cruz, who objected to the certification of Joe Biden’s win and whipped the rioters into a frenzy by making baseless claims […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezBiden names John Kerry as ‘climate czar’ in new administration Maloney vows to overhaul a House Democratic campaign machine ‘stuck in the past’ Ocasio-Cortez defends Harry Styles wearing dress on Vogue cover: ‘It looks wonderful’ MORE (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzMcSally, staff asked to […]
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, Calif. (KION) Health officers from Santa Cruz County and counties and cities around the Bay Area issued recommendations for celebrating Thanksgiving safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendations encompass gatherings, travel and recommended steps to reduce risk. “While we have made progress in reducing disease transmission and […]