u.s. air force academy
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BIDLACK | Senate rightly ponders the politics of presidential picks
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Way back in the last century, I was a young captain fresh into an assignment teaching political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. It was a great assignment to be sure – smart students, wonderful colleagues, and a few perks. Among these perks was the opportunity to attend a conference every…
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BIDLACK: Who loves a parade? Not the military
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In 1984 I was in a military parade. Well, not exactly. I was in the military and I was in a parade, up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Our Olympic Arena team had won several trophies for excellence at the missile operations competition (think Red Flag for missiles), and the nice folks running Cheyenne Frontier Days that…
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Q&A with Jeff Hays: Colorado’s top Republican lives by, ‘Good, better, best. Never let it rest’
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A Texan by birth, a Coloradan by choice and a Republican for life. That’s not so much a part of Jeff Hays’s resume as it is a strand of his DNA. OK, maybe we’re not qualified to analyze Hays’s DNA, but Hays himself is: It turns out the state chair of the Colorado Republican Party…
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Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns previews Vietnam series at Air Force Academy
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Filmmaker Ken Burns thinks his new 10-part documentary on the Vietnam War could spark a public discussion of the issues dividing Americans in 2017. Burns, who gave Air Force Academy cadets a sneak-peek at the documentary Thursday night, pointed to how his 1990 documentary “The Civil War” drove a discussion ahead of the 1991 Persian…
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Bill forging better military-community ties en route to guv’s desk
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Gov. John Hickenlooper soon could ink legislation to help combine overlapping services – like schools, restaurants, parks and shops- that are provided at military bases and by the local communities that host them. House Bill 1054, which was OK’d unanimously by the state Senate, was touted today in a press release by the Senate Democrats as “creating a closer…
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Hickenlooper signs bill creating national cybersecurity center in Colorado Springs
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Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation on the steps of the El Pomar Center Friday at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. At a bill signing ceremony crowded with state legislators and other high-ranking officials, he jotted his signature to an act establishing Colorado’s formal push to become a national leader in cybersecurity. House Bill 16-1453…
