Author: Hal Bidlack

One of the benefits of being, well, I guess technically, some type of journalist writing here on Colorado Politics, isI get on interesting mailing lists. A while back, some kind soul in the governor’s office added me to the daily press briefing list, so each day I get the press releases related to what Gov.…

Well, once again, this non-lawyer columnist is going to jump in the deep end of legal scholarship and will explore a recent Colorado Court of Appeals decision. Buckle up. In yet another terrific Colorado Politics Court Crawl article, we learned about quite a few cases that the Appeals Court has ruled upon. Recall that only…

As I peruse Colorado Politics each week, in search of a topic upon which I can wax philosophic, I sometimes come across stories that seem, frankly, to be quite dull or even unimportant upon first glance. But when I dig a bit deeper, sometimes things appear more significant than at first glance. Such is the…

My regular readers will know of my affection for the Out West Roundup, a Colorado Politics feature that lets us keep up to date with the goings on out here in the western U.S., and draws attention to stories that likely would otherwise go unreported. This week’s column is no different, and so I will…

As I write this on the Sunday before you read it, we’ve just learned of the first American casualties of our, what — war? conflict? attack? — on Iran. The Supreme Leader of Iran, for the past 36 years or so, is likely dead, though at the moment I’m writing, that is still to be…