The Highroad
America’s good food movement
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...
Helpful New Year’s resolutions
In addition to working up my own list of New Year’s resolutions, it occurs to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions for their lists. No need for them to thank me — happy to help...
Tilling our public treasury
Some aspects of American agriculture are quite odd. For example, to meet a farmer these days, there’s no need for you to venture out to the hinterland — because thousands of them actually are city slickers...
Battling the forces of inequality
Inequality is not a condition. It’s a creation. Inequality is produced by thousands of decisions deliberately made by bosses, bankers and big shots to siphon money and power from the many to the few...
USA: low wage nation or good jobs nation?
How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan — who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots — not only has a government office building in Washington named for him, but it’s the biggest and costliest one ever built...
Counterfeit conservatives
You would think that leading conservatives in our country would be, you know … conservative. As in being very opposed to letting government authorities intrude into people’s privacy and personal liberties...
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...
Fly away
Some are born with good luck. But I was 30 years old before Lady Luck smiled on me with full radiance, arriving in the...
Presidential candidates sort of address inequality
At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...
Mitch’s minimum-wage glitch
Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to share his long-repressed feelings about a traumatic event. “It was,” Mitch confided, grim-faced, “the worst day of my political life...
Why are we taxpayers subsidizing corporate crime?
Do the crime, do the time,” goes the old saying. Unless of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card...
