Opinion
Paying the price of the Afghanistan war
boulderweekly.com/highroadThe good news is that the U.S. Senate and House are at last uniting in a truly bipartisan push to put billions of our tax dollars into the urgent national need for better schools, transportation and other essential services. Unfortunately...
Fighting the superbugs of agribusiness
Not so long ago, the “miracle cure” of antibiotics prompted doctors to prescribe them for illnesses as minor as colds and upset tummies. But, then, people began to die. In droves. Why? Overuse of antibiotics led to the rapid evolution of savvy bacteria resistant ...
Chevrolet crashes Chevy
boulderweekly.com/highroad Good news, people. General Motors has turned a profit! However, there’s bad news, too: GM’s top executives are insane. By which I mean bonkers, loopy, bull-goose crazy. How else to explain the carmaker’s recent effort to rebrand “Chevy...
Imagining the ‘unimaginable’
Last week the quiet town of Waseca, Minn. narrowly avoided becoming “one more in a long list of school shootings” (I will come back to this language of the CNN report). A boy, 17 years old, had plotted to kill his family and bomb the town’s junior and senior high ...
If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming
So you don’t like fracking, huh...
Entergy goes nuclear over Vermont’s decision
The nuclear power boys are weaseling again, this time in Vermont...
Yee-haw! Perry for president
The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...
How to make childbirth more painful
Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making this stuff up...
Tech execs say U.S. is failing them
Last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire. “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! We need to ...