Miller Hudson

The night before John Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961, the nation’s capital was blanketed by more than two feet of snow. My twin brother and I were 15 and Eagle Scouts.

A pair of stories this week point to the looming disaster that is Colorado fiscal policy. The larger tale is the five-year failure to deploy a fix for property tax distortions. Since the 2020 repeal of the Gallagher Amendment, both Gov. Jared Polis and several crops of legislative leadership have been participants in a profound dereliction of duty. This is the more complicated misfeasance of the pair and takes longer to explain. So, let's examine the recent report from the Common Sense Institute (CSI) examining the metastasis of fee-funded government. When the TABOR amendment was approved by voters in 1992, state fee collections amounted to a few hundred million dollars annually. This involved hunting permits, license plates, drivers licenses and a grab bag of other fee-for-service structures.

When an organization devotes more energy persecuting internal heretics than effort to expand its membership, there's reason to suspect institutional atrophy. Only a half-century passed following the launch of the Spanish Inquisition before a German priest tacked 95 theses to his cathedral door in 1517. Eight years later, Martin Luther abandoned celibacy in order to marry and raise a family, founding what would become the Lutheran faith. The threat of being burned at the stake by the Inquisition significantly reduced public dissent but, inadvertently, promoted migration to the new world of the Americas.

Writing a weekly political opinion column doesn’t require a commitment to balance. I am free to be just as biased as I’d like, but unrelenting partisan zealotry seems certain to

Denver voters will be considering a pair of citizen-initiated ordinances in November targeting specific business enterprises whose activities can only concern a fraction of residents on a daily basis. Why

I attended the quarterly meeting of the Interstate 70 Collaborative Effort (CE) last week in Frisco. The Aspens surrounding Lake Dillon are magnificent this year, apparently extra vivid because of a wetter than average summer. Next week will bring the quarterly conclave of the I-70 Coalition. The older of the pair and having weathered several iterations, this organization can be traced back to the Corridor Alliance for a Rapid Transit Solution (CARTS), formed in response to the 1995 Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Major Investment Study (MIS) of projected congestion along the central mountain corridor. The coalition is comprised primarily of elected and civic officials from communities along I-70, while the CE recruits representatives from agencies like the U. S. Forest Service (USFS) with a stake in the specifics of infrastructure interventions.

As we flew into New York City last week, skimming across rooftops as we landed at LaGuardia, I couldn’t help but wonder why Manhattan hasn’t long ago sunk beneath the

We spent just four days in Asheville this past August, rather than the seven we planned, following the CrowdStrike software fiasco that shut down airports throughout the country. We visited

Two years ago New York Times editorial writer Carlos Lozada penned a column titled "The Big Joke That Became the Big Lie" a few weeks before the 2022 midterm elections. I've kept it atop my desk because it touches on what I also believe is the real cancer destroying the heart of American politics and threatening the survival of our 250-year democratic experiment.

At the risk of depressing readers even more than they already are, following months of warnings regarding the most important election of their lifetimes (to be remembered as the "Democracy