by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A lot of jokes about Elon Musk are making the rounds, in light of his new role in identifying government waste, fraud and abuse. One says after he puts a car into orbit, outer space will be full of germs and diseases, no longer [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In the 1950 movie version of Grimm’s Fairy Tale, the cruel stepmother scolds Cinderella, “You clumsy little fool — clean that up!” But of course, it was the stepmother, not Cinderella, who made the mess. Sometimes it seems like the world is full of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel An early lesson I learned as a young staffer for the late Sen. Bill Armstrong was the importance of careful consideration. He disliked being rushed into hasty decisions and developed a standard response to any demand for immediate action. “If you need an answer [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Range Magazine features a story called “Where the Desert Bloomed” about the Bend, Oregon, region along the Deschutes River. It could just as well be about the Grand Valley. It describes a once-arid desert turned into a lush valley of productive agriculture by irrigation [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1867, Harper’s Magazine published a story about Tennessee Congressman Davey Crockett and his encounter with an angry constituent. It began with Crockettt’s first House term in 1827, when there was a great fire in Georgetown. Many houses were burned and families made homeless, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel The Fifth Amendment is an essential part of the Bill of Rights, ensuring, “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” Sometimes private property stands in the way of public progress, such as when highways are built. The public good [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel When President Kennedy explained the goal of sending a man to the moon, he said the nation chose to do such things “not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One of the most popular speakers at Club 20 in the 1990s was a Montana logger named Bruce Vincent, founder of a PR firm called Environomics, Inc. He was, and is, one of the country’s most inspiring and entertaining speakers on natural resources and [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously advised, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” He was talking about the financial [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel Wolves yelp, bark and howl at night to commmunicate, establish territories, and even to show affection. They do not actually howl at the moon, although that romanticized vision was cited by many voters who thought returning wolves to Colorado would somehow enhance their lives. [...]
