The Highroad
To understand the news, connect the headlines!
Headlines for economic news stories tend to conflict and confuse. So let’s play [game show theme]: “Connect-The- Headlines...
U.S. Postal Service selling out workers and… America
You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what...
How far-out is Trump’s war policy?
If you think our government’s war policy has become out-of-this world cuckoo, consider the spaciness being proposed by the cosmonauts on Spaceship Trump.
Spending nearly...
Exposing our ‘populist’ president as a naked plutocrat
Have you noticed that Donald Trump constantly prefaces his outlandish lies with such phrases as: “To be honest with you,” “To tell the truth,”...
If you only watch your bottom line, you can’t lift your...
Just for the hell of it, let’s re-imagine Walmart...
Big Coal buys access to 4th graders
If some predator was stalking fourth graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools...
What’s in Trump’s food-box?
Even Charles Dickens, England’s masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous...
How Koch-headed billionaires plan to ‘save’ America
The Koch boys live in their own special world, enshrouded in a rarefied atmosphere created by the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth...
A governor eaten up by corporate ideology
In office for only half a year, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has made clear to the people of his state what he’s made of: right-wing ideological Silly Putty...
General Armey fades away
Lightning’s flashing, winds are howling — and there’s a tempest in the tea party! Why it’s Dick Armey, the blowhard, former Republican majority leader, corporate lobbyist, Koch brothers’ retainer and commanding general of the tea party army...
Monsanto comes a cropper
boulderweekly.com/highroad As an old TV ad used to say: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Monsanto corporation, however, still has not taken Mother’s advice. This giant chemical maker became a veritable Frankenstein in the 1990s, genetically engineering new ...
Lawmakers dance with the devil
If you choose to dance with the devil, never flatter yourself that you're in the lead...






