Author: Miller Hudson
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Why after 70-plus years of readership I won’t renew my Washington Post subscription | Miller Hudson
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My brother and I read a lot growing up. Our Dad, a bomb-designing nuclear engineer with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), purchased our first television the day after we graduated from high school. Yes, there was a statement therein regarding his opinion of a pernicious distraction from our academic pursuits. I can’t imagine what he…
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Pondering Colorado’s population pivot | Miller Hudson
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A year ago, I ran across one of those business page statistics which confirmed current reports more families are moving out of Colorado than arriving. Rental companies were noticing for the first time in their memory, certainly since the 1960s, they were hauling more and more empty trucks and trailers into the state. In the…
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Transit, rail initiatives hurtling down the tracks toward a collision | Miller Hudson
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At the Colorado legislature, high-profile battles that divide along partisan lines are the exception rather than the rule. Though these disputes earn the most media coverage, beneath the turmoil on the surface are struggles that rarely engage more than a few lobbyists as unpredictable alliances among legislators form across party lines. Pundits have long noted…
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TABOR and the Colorado Constitution’s fiscal Gordian Knot | Miller Hudson
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A corporate president advised me once there are two kinds of lawyers: “those who tell you why you can’t do things and those who figure out how to get things done anyway.” He only hired the latter. Since the adoption of the TABOR amendment in 1992, the Colorado legislature has opted for counsel from the…
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Democratic-socialist experiments in New York, Seattle well worth watching | Miller Hudson
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Despite writing just once a week, I find myself trying to make content choices two or three weeks ahead — if for no other reason than gathering information. Late last year I theorized Zohran Mamdani just might replace our Tangerine Terror as the most interesting political story in America early in 2026. I was dead…
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The art of a Trumpian Colorado deal for Tina Peters | Miller Hudson
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Listen up, Colorado! I have a hell of a deal for our state that’s a solid-gold work of art. We should know by now we have a president who won’t pass up any opportunity to micturate on the Centennial State. Yet, he still prides himself on his skills as a peace negotiator, except for his…
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The subtle independence at the heart of Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s shrewd politics | HUDSON
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To have known Ben Nighthorse Campbell was to like him. He had a knack for putting people at ease, making them look forward to another meeting. I certainly felt that way. It wasn’t just his humor or his mesmerizing intensity, but his lack of pretense. Ben decided to be himself long before he became a…
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Thinking through what may be on tap in 2026 | HUDSON
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When the three-million-year-old bones of Lucy were unearthed in an Ethiopian valley in 1974, paleoanthropologists anointed her as the Eve to all of us. Though her skull was not big enough to accommodate our larger, homo sapiens’ brain, she was a genetic hominid. Although a few bone fragments of a greater age have been discovered…
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Trump’s anti-DEI crusade enables twisting of the law | HUDSON
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As soon-to-be denizens of America’s imminent Golden Age, which mysteriously seems to be perpetually hiding just around our next economic corner, I’m fearful this promised prosperity will arrive with strict rules governing how we are permitted to spend any newfound riches. For that matter, the expanding MAGA war against all things even remotely linkable to…
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An early candidate for 2026’s word of the year: ‘affordability’ | HUDSON
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The Oxford Press linked to the famous British University and publisher of the world’s best known English Dictionary has selected its favorite new word for 2025: “rage bait.” It means exactly what you might guess, even if, like me, you haven’t actually encountered it. Think of any five minutes spent listening to Tucker Carlson or…
