Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson I registered to attend the Denver Mayoral Debate sponsored by the Gazette papers on the Anschutz medical campus with an intention of commenting on the field of candidates seeking to lead Denver through the next four years. I didn’t appreciate there would be three separate debate panels, each featuring five candidates, that would…

Miller Hudson The structure of America’s political parties has changed radically during the past century. Once the domain of powerful machine bosses, Colorado’s political leadership began to abandon smoke-filled rooms dominated by white, male cronies and pass to insurgent, grassroots organizers for both parties. In Colorado this upheaval was first evident among Democrats, as anti-war…

Miller Hudson Our vice president, and what is fast becoming a perpetual American presidential campaign for both parties, traveled to Denver last Monday. Kamala Harris had been reportedly planning to visit Colorado on Wednesday, but at 11 p.m. Sunday evening I received a White House email confirming press credentials for the next day. I was…

MILLER HUDSON A long time ago, long before the internet or Wikipedia, I was reading my copy of Newsweek and discovered the governor of Georgia was going to run for president in 1976. I’d never heard of Jimmy Carter but was intrigued to read he was a nuclear engineer. So was my father, who had…

Miller Hudson Although no one has died yet following the Norfolk-Southern train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, the derailment of several tanker cars transporting vinyl chloride has dominated the news cycle the past few weeks. Network anchors love the spectacular and compelling visuals captured by drones following a decision to burn-off this flammable liquid which…

With the National Governor’s Association meeting underway in the nation’s capital last week, the Washington Post ran a speculative piece on whom Democrats might nominate in 2024 if not Joe Biden. After recounting the deficits and expressed reticence of several of the more frequently “mentioned,” the Post concluded, “It would seem there’s an opening for…

Miller Hudson Last summer I had an interesting conversation with a retired high school football coach who has launched a second career as a “quarterback whisperer.” He works with coaches at Florida’s elite football factories to identify those boys, soon to be men, who can successfully lead a team to the state championships. He told…

Miller Hudson Not so many years ago, two young Finns ignited a viral fascination with their Angry Birds media franchise. There was something genuinely appealing about these squabbling avian combatants. Last week evidenced that anger isn’t just for the birds and, when observed elsewhere, is not nearly so amusing. Candidate Trump informed us if we…

Miller Hudson Seventy years ago, the nuns at Holy Rosary Elementary in Idaho Falls had an exceptionally dim view of lying. Though not regarded a mortal sin that would sentence one to perdition for all eternity, it was evident that, absent absolution, miscreants were destined for extended penance in Purgatory. Of course, even Catholic kids…

Miller Hudson Truth be told, I never knew what my Dad really did during his 20 years with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He must have had his fingers in the design of nuclear weapons as he regularly attended aerial, surface and underground blasts in Nevada. He even flew to the South Pacific to observe…