by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Years ago as a high school and college debater, I was trained to begin making my case by defining key terms. A debate gets incoherent if the two sides don’t agree on what the topic is, or what is being proposed. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The Social Security Administration, ever searching for important tasks, tracks the most popular new names for babies each year (Olivia and Liam, four years straight). Similarly, Rover.com tracks the most popular pet names (Luna and Max). But who is keeping track of the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Remember when air travel used to fun? Big carriers like PanAm competed with TWA and Eastern, as did smaller ones like Braniff and Piedmont, each claiming to offer better food and more comfortable seats. They’re all gone now. The big mergers [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel There are hundreds of books about the history of conservation and natural resources, including biographies of the important leaders and tales of early settlers. But there is almost always something missing, namely, the contribution of artists. Modern conservationists have largely forgotten [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Generations of Christian worshipers, and even atheist historians, have admired the Apostle Paul, for his consistent philosophical advice, his remarkable writing skill and of course his willingness to undergo imprisonment, torture and death for his views. Yet writers frequently lament the [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel If I told you to go jump in a lake, you probably wouldn’t. You would know I didn’t actually want you to go jump in an actual lake. But if I took up a collection, and offered you money to go [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Willy Sutton famously told a reporter that he robbed banks for one simple reason: “That’s where the money is.” Now, it is as if someone said to him, “You can go ahead and steal money, but not from banks.” There have [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Some years ago I spent a day burning ditches around my peach orchard, as many growers do every spring. The location near Interstate 70 allowed passing cars to see the fires (mine and a couple others), and several grabbed their cell [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel The state of Wyoming is considering the purchase of a vast swath of land along the Union Pacific Railroad corridor, including over 1 million acres of surface and 4 million acres of mineral rights. The valuable resource is now owned by [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A famous 1970s TV commercial warned, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” In fact, it’s worse than “not nice” — it’s dangerous. Coloradans will make a momentous decision on this year’s ballot, whether to mess with Mother Nature by introducing [...]
