Author: Hal Bidlack
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Affronts to our children’s children | Hal Bidlack
As my regular reader (hi Jeff!) will recall, I’m quite fond of the Colorado Politics section called Out West Roundup. On that page, readers can learn about quite a few things happening in the American west that missed the front page. It’s a great way to keep current on key issues here in the west,…
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Too many stories, too little space | Hal Bidlack
Well, this week’s column presents a problem: there are far too many things in Colorado Politics of interest, and I want to write about them all. But given my kindly editor is unlikely to let me expand my column to booklet length (Ed: correct), I’ll just have to mention a few things in a concise…
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A few thoughts on returning home | Hal Bidlack
Did you miss me? (Editor: might be best not to ask…) I’ve been on the road for much of the last month or so, visiting family and performing my one-man show as Alexander Hamilton for groups of lawyers and regular folks. So, no columns from me lately. Did I miss anything? Oh, right, the primary.…
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Colorado’s other river problem | Hal Bidlack
Well, the legislative session is over, and my inbox is filled with notifications of the many, many bills Gov. Jared Polis has signed, as well as the few he vetoed, and I could write quite a few pages on the new laws and what they mean for our future. I’d like to write, for example,…
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Is the ‘penumbra of privacy’ going, going, gone in Colorado? | Hal Bidlack
Once again, there are too many things in Colorado Politics that are newsworthy and should be written about. Unless my kindly editor will allow me to write a book-length column this week? (Ed: not so much…) First up, I’d like to comment on the recent West Point graduation speech given by Secretary of Defense Pete…
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Sorry, Governor — you are wrong on this one | Hal Bidlack
If you have read even a handful of my several hundred columns during the past few years, you likely ran across me saying nice things about Gov. Jared Polis. I genuinely like the guy, whom I met during our mutual first runs for Congress back in 2008. He was very nice to me, even though,…
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Solar and wind —what a difference a border makes | Hal Bidlack
If you ask most Americans where Colorado and Wyoming are on a map, they will likely be able to find us, somewhere out west. A few might be confused by our roughly similar shapes. Sure, Colorado is actually a 697-sided polygon (a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon) due to surveying errors during the 19th century. Wyoming, on the other hand, is a…
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Real and durable wins for pro-choice? Maybe not so much | Hal Bidlack
My regular reader (Hi, Jeff!) knows I don’t go out seeking to offend or bother my kindly readers. I don’t always try to upset people, even though I propose our president should be removed from office via the 25th Amendment, if his cabinet were not bootlicking sycophants and vaccine denying minions who regularly fail to…
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Kudos for cooperation on critical Colorado water issues related to tribal communities | Hal Bidlack
Way back in 1997, while I was still an active-duty Air Force officer, I was working a summer temporary duty assignment during the academic break at the Air Force Academy. I ended up doing this work for two summers, and it was some of the most exciting work I ever did in my 25-plus year…
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A workhorse emerges in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District? | Hal Bidlack
Do we have a workhorse emerging from Colorado’s Third Congressional District? I’m not sure, but an interesting bit of legislation U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd introduced is at least a bit suggestive he just might be in Washington, D.C. to get work done, even if the cameras are not aimed his way. As my regular reader…