by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel My granddad had a great expression when something was remarkable or astonishing: “Well, that just beats the Dutch!” It was a linguistic heirloom of the 17th century when England and the Netherlands were commercial and naval rivals. Something had to be extreme to surpass [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This fall, Colorado voters may see a ballot measure to change the way highway funding is spent; always a source of controversy and heated debate. But for voters on the Western Slope, the issue is a no-brainer if ever there was such a thing. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel n the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln famously said, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” Notoriously modest, he was completely wrong. One hundred and sixty-three years later, his speech is perhaps [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel If you were a grey wolf, it would be hard to imagine a more hostile environment than this state, into which 25 wolves have been involuntarily and violently extradited from their natural homes. It is reminiscent of illegal immigrants from south of the border [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel At Club 20 in the 1990s, we often fought against diverting highway funds for non-highway purposes, such as mass transit. We reminded national officials that “there will never be a Japanese bullet train from Slick Rock to Egnar.” They had never heard of either [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Few images evoke more emotional symbolism than light. As far back as history records, light held a significant place in ancient cultures, many of which worshipped the sun. In the Christian faith, the “light of the world” symbolizes truth, divinity, knowledge, even life itself. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel America’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has commentators arguing about what to do with the country’s oil. In many ways, it’s the wrong argument. Global political and market forces will ultimately determine whose cars and factories benefit. However, the future of the country [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Biannually during my years at Club 20, we took 50 Western Slope leaders to Washington to meet with key leaders on public lands and other issues important to our region. During one such trip, we had a spirited conversation with a congressional staffer from [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A good friend of mine hired a professional photographer, at great expense, to take pictures during a planned event. Afterward, when the finished pictures were delivered, virtually all of them were blurry, because the camera had been out of focus. Laws are like that, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel An interesting case in Tennessee focuses on Congress delegating its legislative power to others — for decades. Not just to executive branch agencies, but in some situations to anyone at all. In Tennessee Riverkeeper v. City of Luttrell, an environmental group from another state [...]
