Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson During the dozen years between little league play and my high school graduation, the New York Yankees won seven pennants and lost another three. If you were a fan of an American League team, it meant the Yankees grabbed 10 of 12 championships. There was no more hated baseball team in the country.…

Miller Hudson I spent more time attending Colorado legislative committee hearings this past session than I had since the years before COVID. Those often-tedious hours drove home the perverse and unanticipated consequences of term limits. Legislative customs are built on what has transpired during the previous six years. Aside from a sprinkling of senators who…

Richard Reeves, a British writer long resident here and now an American citizen, hit the jackpot with his 2022 volume “Of Boys and Men.” Receiving mention on most “Best Books” lists and an Obama reading selection for 2024, this father of three sons has spun off a veritable empire of concern for the struggles of…

Miller Hudson It’s always bracing to leave Denver and the stress of the Front Range metroplex in favor of rural Colorado. We tend to forget these towns and their adjacent open spaces are inhabited by fellow citizens committed to a richer quality of life — not in dollars and cents perhaps. but in terms of friendships…

Miller Hudson Kermit the Frog’s anthem, “It’s not easy being Green,” was popular enough even a Republican like Frank Sinatra covered it, together with a pair of John Denver songs, on one of his twilight career albums. It would take another 40 years before anti-woke, MAGA Republicans would discern in its lyrics an insidious, initial…

Miller Hudson It was 45 years ago I attended a charity reception at a West City Park B&B, which has passed through several owners since. At the time there was a circa 1900 map of Colorado’s Front Range mounted on the staircase wall. As I examined it, I noted an arrow and lettering stating, “Denver…

Miller Hudson It’s been intriguing to witness the evolution of American attitudes toward higher education during the past 75 years. By 1950, the G.I. bill approved following World War II offered a free college education to any interested veteran. It graduated millions of engineers, scientists, teachers and even more who pursued advanced degrees. The phenomenal…

Miller Hudson When it comes to elections in Colorado, where no Republican has won a major statewide race in more than a decade, and with the Republican Party plotting major repairs, it was probably inevitable a pair of well-liked and generally admired Democrats would face-off against one another in a primary. The governor’s chair is…

Miller Hudson Early on the first Saturday morning in April, it was snowing lightly as I left Littleton for Evergreen. Climbing up Route 74 visibility deteriorated, and the road grew slicker. Passing through Kittredge, I spotted Troublesome Gulch Road where satellite-linked trucks gathered 37 years ago prowling for Gary Hart whose presidential campaign had imploded…

Miller Hudson Do we feel newly liberated this week? I suppose that might be true if we felt somehow confined prior to April 2. Before New York U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik introduces legislation designating April 2 a national holiday, we should probably wait to see what Liberation Day brings us. President Donald Trump promises tariffs…