Author: Hal Bidlack

Hal Bidlack As my regular reader (Hi Jeff!) will attest, I often strive for a bit of attempted humor in my columns, even when discussing very serious subjects. I learned many valuable leadership lessons from the time I was the executive officer to a general officer serving at the AF Academy. And he often noted…

Hal Bidlack If you have read more than a couple of my columns during the past six years or so, you have seen me mention that, for the last 25 years, I’ve performed a one-man show as Alexander Hamilton around the country (cough…hamiltonlives.com… cough). After the show, when chatting with audience members, I am often…

Hal Bidlack Back when I was a staffer for Sen. Michael Bennet, one of the two terrific United States senators whom the people of Colorado are fortunate to have representing us, I would often get phone calls from people who wanted to talk to the senator about a particular issue they were confronted with. Sometimes…

Hal Bidlack My regular reader (Hi Jeff!) may have noticed I’ve been gone from these informative pages for the last couple of weeks. Others likely didn’t notice (Editor: you’ve been gone?) but in case you did notice, I was away attending the memorial service for my eldest brother, who died unexpectedly. He was 78 and…

Hal Bidlack May I take a moment to say something I very rarely say? My regular readers may be shocked by what I’m about to say, but sometimes a columnist like myself must be brave, bold, forthright and modest. So let me say this… I agree with the Republicans. Well, with some of them. On…

Hal Bidlack My regular reader (Hi Jeff!) will recall several earlier missives wherein I excoriated a radical decision made by a certain former president, in the final hours of his administration, to arbitrarily and capriciously yank U.S. Space Command from its logical home in Colorado Springs and to move it to Alabama. Trump’s motives were…

071823-cp-web-oped-bidlack-1 The first few months of 1803 must have been difficult and perhaps even vexing for the relatively new Chief Justice of the United States (that’s the actual title, by the way, not Chief Justice of the Supreme Court). John Marshall had been in place at the helm of our nation’s highest court since 1801,…

071823-cp-web-oped-bidlack-1 As is so often the case, my daily perusal of Colorado Politics results in me wanting to leap atop my rickety soapbox of idealism to spout platitudes and, I hope, an insight or two. Today is no exception, as the story reporting on the diverse staffs of our two US senators caught my eye.…

Hal Bidlack I think it is likely that, at some point over the years, you have seen a movie or a TV show wherein a central character falls into a deep sleep, a fever dream if you will, from which he or she awakes wondering where they are, what day it is, and what is…