The Highroad
What does it mean to ‘gig’ American workers?
No doubt you will be thrilled to learn that we now live and work in a “gig economy.”
That’s the latest corporate buzz-phrase from Silicon...
Hallelujah, Trump rushes to aid the needy!
Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress?
Regular folks in our country say...
A curse, a blessing, and a good food movement
In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture...
The mobsters of Wall Street
Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the ...
Can Amazon sucker the people of New York?
The undisputed king of taxpayer scammers is Amazon — but a hardy band of New York commoners is delivering an old-line message to the...
The rebellion spreads to Wall Street itself
boulderweekly.com/highroad An odd brotherhood is joining the populist push to rein in the narcissistic greed of Wall Street giants: Wall Streeters themselves! There’s John Bogle, the 80-yearold founder of Vanguard Group: “I am a believer that the system has gone ...
Should our natural resources have legal rights?
From the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but...
Is nothing sacred to frackers?
Such energy powers as BP, ExxonMobil, Halliburton and Koch Industries have gone crackers over fracking...
What are Trump & Co. really up to?
Remember Trump-the-candidate promising working-class voters that he’d be Wall Street’s worst nightmare, cracking down hard on greedy financial thieves whose scams and schemes are...
What if we made voting fun?
The shameful truth about America’s democratic process is that it’s become so un-democratic that they don’t want you to vote.
By “they” I mean...
Fed up with Wall Street? Do something about it!
Instead of griping about the greedheads of Wall Street and the ripoff financial system they’ve hung around our necks, why don’t we “Take On...
Two good ideas for banking reform
If either party in Washington were to get serious about reining in Wall Street greedheads, here are two good ideas for achieving that. The first comes from Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who, ironically, has introduced a bill that is the essence ...
