by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Common Sense Institute (CSI) just published an analysis of the economic impact of hunting and fishing in Colorado, to help inform debate on a November ballot measure called Amendment 83. It would enshrine in the state constitution the right of the people to [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Hagrid is one of the most beloved characters in the Harry Potter series. The half-giant befriends Harry and his cohorts Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, with whom he develops the habit of letting slip bits of information that were supposed to be confidential. He [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1989, the U.S. Forest Service published a 13-page booklet (Program Aid No. 1442) titled, “Trees are the answer... to America’s growing environmental concerns.” The Society of American Foresters turned it into a bumper sticker and by the end of the 1990s cars across [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel John Wesley Powell, the 19th century Colorado River explorer and long-time head of the U.S. Geological Survey, published one of the earliest analyses of the American Southwest in 1879, called “Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States.” He may [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel What if you face difficult legal battles, and I announce that I’ve appointed myself as your lawyer? We have never met, and I don’t know anything about your needs. You know nothing of my credentials. You never agreed to hire me or signed any [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel I heard about two lawyers that argued for over an hour. Finally, one said, “That’s my final word on the subject.” To which the other replied, “Oh, good. Now we can begin.” In politics, contentious agreements are a bit like that, too. There is [...]
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 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 “Crocodile tears” is an expression describing an insincere, hypocritical display of emotion, like when a murderer pretends to mourn his victim. It is an ancient metaphor — Plutarch attributed it to “antiquity” during Nero’s reign. It has been around so long because, believe it [...]
