Author: By Miller Hudson
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HUDSON | Mental health treatment lacking for Coloradans
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…
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HUDSON | Ganahl’s blunder is a gift to Polis
Miller Hudson Colorado’s traditional Republican leadership must have consumed a barrel of single malt last week – first in celebration and then in horror. By most measures the party escaped its 2022 primary with a minimum of voter approvals for the delusional lunacy that afflicts much of its base and many of its candidates. Three…
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HUDSON | Analyzing abortion in America
Miller Hudson Fifty-five years have elapsed since a group of Planned Parenthood-supporting Republican Protestants in the Colorado Senate joined a young Denver Democrat in the House named Richard Lamm to make the Centennial State first in the nation to formally legalize abortion. It would be another five years before the United States Supreme Court extended…
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HUDSON | A novel idea to wrangle student-loan wreckage
Miller Hudson The student debt saddling millennials has produced a public policy problem like no other. With total debt having exploded to $1.6 trillion owed by 43 million Americans, it’s the economic equivalent of an iceberg where the real danger lies menacingly beneath the surface. This mountain of debt has the potential to sink the…
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HUDSON | Climate change — sleeper issue come November
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 real chance…
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HUDSON | The constitutionality of Roe
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 playgrounds for…
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HUDSON | Ski-town NIMBYism in disguise?
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 years ago…
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HUDSON | The cost of assigning guilt to acts of God
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 struggle. King…
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HUDSON | The naive arrogance of political Hotspurs
There is a rhythm to our national politics that has produced a pendulum swing between Democratic and Republican Presidencies since the Second World War. While not perfectly timed, this pattern of alternation has limited each party to no more than a pair of consecutive Presidents. Until 1994, however, Democrats dominated both chambers of Congress with…
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HUDSON | Ditch local hurdles to quell housing crisis
Access to affordable housing has been a Colorado challenge for nearly two decades. As the state’s economy recovered from the real estate collapse of the early 1990s, prices started rising and they’ve never looked back. Demand is finally crashing into economic reality with the average equity appreciation jumping by 9% during March alone. In 2018…