Author: Miller Hudson

Miller Hudson A benefit of writing a regular column is that, after a few years, reports, essays and statistical analyses find their way into both your “snail mail” and email boxes. Many you’ve solicited or subscribed to, but others simply appear there – origins unknown. A quick skim usually lets me grasp whether a missive merely…

Miller Hudson Recent reports that dark money Democratic political committees are attempting to influence Colorado’s Republican primary voters may sound bizarre to most voters but not to anyone who’s been involved in 21st century political campaigns. This kind of subterfuge isn’t something new or limited only to Democrats. Partisan meddling has moved from pranking to…

Miller Hudson If you’ve been watching TV news recently, you’ve almost certainly seen an appeal from a hitherto-unknown outfit named the CCIA (Computer and Communications Industry Association) urging you to contact Democratic Colorado U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper. The CCIA wants you to ask them to oppose Senate Bill 2992. During a single…

Miller Hudson You may have missed CDOT’s low key launch last week of Pegasus vans, kid brothers of Bustang, serving a Denver to Avon route along Interstate-70. The flashy blue and white, 13-passenger vans were being touted as a more attractive, micro-transit alternative to the Bustang behemoths. Making fewer stops and potentially more agile in…

Miller Hudson The Boston Globe framed its editorial comment on the Texas massacre of fourth graders and two of their teachers with, “You’ve heard it all before. We’ve said it all before.” They then reprinted past editorial excerpts calling for gun controls. It’s nearly impossible to say anything new or offer greater insight regarding the…

Miller Hudson Replacement isn’t so much a theory as it is a demographic fact – but not in the way it is being discussed on the right. We don’t know what the Neanderthals had to say about the scruffy little humans that drove them into extinction. Raiders, immigrants and other wanderers have been replacing indigenous populations…

Miller Hudson With the Legislature adjourned for another year, we can focus our full attention on the 2022 midterm elections. How lucky can we be? Truth be told, at least for Colorado, that may prove a dull exercise. Republicans appear intent on pursuing their recent strategy of choosing certain electoral suicide in preference to any…

Miller Hudson When I returned to the United States from the Navy in 1970, my family moved into a poorly constructed garden-apartment complex in Lanham, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Little did we know these seemingly cutting-edge residences would become “ready-made,” low-income housing within twenty years. Nonetheless, they offered a few amenities for parents, including…

Miller Hudson As you read this column the Vail Town Council is preparing to condemn a private piece of property owned by Vail Resorts on which the company proposes to construct affordable housing for 165 employees – thereby killing the project. No, the Council has not been ambushed. In fact, it approved the original zoning five…

Miller Hudson Whether Americans are the most litigious society in human history is debatable. Shakespeare, after all, was author of the quip, “the first thing we do, is we kill all the lawyers.” Presumably, funneling our civil disputes into courtrooms offers benefits over trial by combat. Even the Bible is replete with tales of legal…