The Highroad
You, too, can be part of Scott Walker’s inner circle
If you think that none of today’s presidential candidates care about people like you, check out Republican Scott Walker...
Goldman Sachs shows us its abacus
boulderweekly.com/highroad Doing a public service was the very last thing on the minds of the geniuses at Goldman Sachs who created Abacus 2007-ACI, but I, for one, am grateful to them. Abacus is the name of the investment package that has caused mighty Goldman...
Texas natives tussle with foreign invaders
Turf wars can be the silliest of all scuffles, and no place does silly with more zeal than Texas...
Another corporate path for buying our governmet
boulderweekly.com/highroad Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t have enough power over our government. If so, let me soothe your fevered brow with a report ...
Transforming humans into billboards
Billboards must to be living creatures, for they appear to propagate, spreading everywhere, growing to enormous size, shouting corporate messages at us — and...
Which Mitch do you believe?
boulderweekly.com/highroad As Lily Tomlin has said, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” She could’ve been referring to Sen. Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans in Congress, whose cynical hypocrisy either makes you want to ...
A right to know what’s in your dinner
One of the most important elections being held on Nov. 6 doesn’t even have a Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian or other partisan on the ballot...
Monsanto Frankenwheat crops up in Oregon
Bob Dylan once sent a two-word lyric to Ben Harper, a talented songwriter he admired. “Well well,” was the lyric, and Dylan challenged Harper to make a song of it...
Should the rich get a special express lane onto the internet...
Last year, America’s largest internet provider, Comcast, took over the second-largest, Time Warner. So Comcast is now a coast-to-coast beast, running its proprietary lines...
Let workers vote on CEO’s pay
One difference between top executives and worker bees is that those at the top can lower the pay of those down below, while simultaneously raising their own pay. If you wonder what’s causing America’s rapidly-widening income gap, there it is...
America’s good food movement
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...
