Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson For the past two years, Colorado’s legislative leadership on each side of the aisle launched the annual General Assembly opening with promises to make property tax reform their number one priority. Yet, no such bill reached the floor until the final week of both sessions — too late for thorough public hearings or adequate…

Miller Hudson Jimmy Carter and my father were born two days apart in 1924, Carter on Oct. 1 in Plains, Georgia, and my Dad on Oct. 3 in Altus, Oklahoma. They would meet 28 years later in the unlikely Canadian town of Chalk River, Ontario. Meanwhile, each donned Navy uniforms in 1942, Carter entering the…

Miller Hudson As August approached in the summer of 1952, I was looking forward to returning for second grade at Holy Rosary Elementary in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Classes would begin in the middle of the month because there would be a two-week break at the end of September when schools closed for the potato harvest…

Miller Hudson As if we didn’t have enough to worry about what with continuing political gridlock in Washington, impending climate disasters, stubbornly high interest rates and a stock market riding on animal spirits, there are ample worries regarding our personal health. Immune system diseases have been on the rise for decades and rumors of a…

Miller Hudson Eight years have passed since I lost my twin brother to congestive heart disease. Richard was a brilliant mathematician who submitted the shortest Ph.D. dissertation ever accepted at Duke University — only eight pages. He had successfully unraveled a paradox left by the 17th century German polymath, Leibniz, credited together with Isaac Newton for…

Miller Hudson I’ve chosen to write this column without assiduously perusing all of the negative responses to President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter. They range from the predictable paroxysms of feigned rage from MAGA world to the presumably sincere objections of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Jason…

Miller Hudson The adage even a stopped clock is accurate twice a day seems appropriate to Gov. Jared Polis’ excitement for the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Even the nominee’s hometown paper, the Boston Globe, headlined its recent editorial, “RFK…

Miller Hudson There is more than a little irony in the fact the MAGAverse held its end zone victory dance while attending UFC fights at Madison Square Garden last week. This testosterone-fueled exhibit of masculine toxicity occurred just as Democratic pugilists were launching their own cage match, pitting progressives against moderates in the blame game.…

Miller Hudson I acknowledge Democrats have been pummeled of late for their identity politics. Therefore, I hesitate to rush to the defense of another oft maligned group — legislative lobbyists. At a time of collapsing public confidence in our governing institutions — when public approval of U.S. Congress and state legislatures has plummeted into the low teens —…

Miller Hudson It’s tempting to pontificate on last week’s election results, but another ill-considered analysis will only shed more shade than light. It could be several months before we fully comprehend what voters really want. Suffice it to say, it’s not likely to be what they will get. Nearly 15 million voters who threw President-elect…