Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson With flammable hatred spreading across the Middle East and continuing carnage destroying Ukraine, it may seem a bit parochial to bring up Proposition HH for further discussion. Nonetheless, life moves apace with politics and our ballot responsibilities can’t be waved aside merely because the world may ignite. I wrote several months ago I…

Miller Hudson Fifty years ago, this month, I was finishing my first year in Denver. I had recently purchased a Wheat Ridge duplex and received a promotion as budget manager for Mountain Bell when I was startled by a notification from the U. S. Navy requesting me to report for an assignment in response to…

Miller Hudson Over the past four decades the role of the district congressional office has changed dramatically. So too, of course, have the channels of communication for reaching your representative. In a world dominated by electronic messaging, one wonders whether pen and ink letters are any longer opened. It’s evident, if you’ve dispatched an email…

Miller Hudson Forty years ago, communications with and among Colorado legislators was a largely observable phenomenon. There were no cell phones, no emails – only beepers that would notify you when a message was waiting in your electronic mailbox. Just off the House floor at the Capitol were wall phones available for placing calls together with…

Miller Hudson Recently, a friend asked me why I thought public transit has become yet another partisan policy divide. I didn’t have a ready answer, despite a quarter-century of involvement in Colorado’s transit wars. Somehow, bus and rail options have gradually been regarded as a socialist plot designed to deny personal liberties, herding the public…

Miller Hudson Four American states were founded as commonwealths: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. As a practical matter, that choice makes little difference to their standing as equal participants in the American experiment. Most historians dismiss the designation as a mere adoption of then-contemporary English vocabulary. The British government would later denigrate the term during…

Miller Hudson Credit cards and their role in personal finances have become so central to American life we lose sight of their evolution. There was actually a time before credit cards, when cash or personal checks were accepted as payments. As credit cards became acceptable at many businesses, you were required to subscribe to their…

Miller Hudson Last month I commandeered the camp kitchen for a trail repair project undertaken jointly by Volunteers for Outdoors Colorado (VOC) and the Colorado 14ers Initiative. The heavily traveled trailhead leading to Gray’s and Torrey’s summits lies just south of Interstate 70 off the Bakerville exit, a few miles west of Silver Plume. This…

Miller Hudson In July I attended the Denver Democratic picnic at Ruby Hill Park. The good news for Democrats is I saw very few people I knew. Instead, there was a preponderance of young Democrats assuming leadership. As I prepared a chili dog, which I smothered beneath a generous scoop of homemade red, I found…

Miller Hudson It’s been 40 years since a therapist and close friend, advised me, “You know, Miller, you seem to have an anti-authoritarian mindset. Why is that?” Her observation came without knowing I had reported my commanding officer to the Judge Advocate General’s staff for diverting funds. I still recall the precise words included in…