Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson We’re all familiar with the adage “close” only counts in horseshoes. A legislative corollary is “intentions are largely irrelevant — only results count.” A case in point would be the seven-year effort to “save Coloradans money on health care.” I never expected to write so many columns regarding the failures of this campaign.…

Miller Hudson Roughly equal proportions of Democrats and Republicans, a majority in both parties, express their concern American democracy is currently in peril. We can presume independent voters share that perception, even if the reasons for worry remain different within each group. Also buried in polls is a two-thirds conviction our politics and politicians are…

Miller Hudson Several recent articles appearing in publications ranging from “Foreign Affairs” to the New Yorker have posited a notion MAGA adherents “think differently” than mainstream policy geeks within both major political parties. No better evidence of this disconnect can be found than John Bolton’s recent essay in the Atlantic titled, “The Only Question Trump…

Miller Hudson When Gov. Jared Polis was sworn into office five years ago, saving Coloradans money on health care was his number one policy priority carried into office from his campaign. Since then, despite an interruption from the COVID pandemic, each legislative session has generated a fistful of bills and associated press releases hyping the…

Miller Hudson Most of us are familiar with the notion of hypocrisy. Truth be told, we each indulge in hypocritical choices every now and again. It’s politicians, however, who are the presumed masters of this skill. The word originates from the Old French, “ypocrisie”, which was recycled into ecclesiastical Latin by the Catholic Church in…

Miller Hudson I scurried in and out of Washington, D.C., over five days last week. The glum mood which pervades the nation’s capital was only aggravated by its first cold, snowy winter in more than a decade. Fear roams the hallways of our federal government. Rumors “the muskrats are coming” spreads terror. Though most job…

Miller Hudson I was troubled during the second Trump inaugural so few observers were disturbed by the rogue’s gallery of the nation’s richest men seated immediately behind our re-elected president. Additional corporate titans, most prominently the “techbros” from Silicon Valley, were scattered behind the three wealthiest horsemen likely to deliver an economic apocalypse for the…

Miller Hudson It’s been more than 30 years since there were any discussions of storing nuclear waste in Colorado. Before revisiting that debate, it is important to understand the three major waste streams generated by the nuclear cycle. First and least dangerous are Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORMS) — which consist of uranium mill tailings and…

Miller Hudson I was just nine years old and still finishing fourth grade in 1954 when I heard my parents talking about the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision requiring public schools to integrate. This was a little confusing since my twin brother and I were attending a parochial elementary school in Alexandria,…

Miller Hudson If you are still quasi-catatonic following November’s election, never fear, 2026 is just around the corner. Two candidates already announced their intention to succeed Gov. Jared Polis as Colorado’s governor. Attorney General Phil Weiser, whose six years as the state’s chief prosecutor have been characterized by a marked propensity to depart Denver for…