The Highroad

To understand the news, connect the headlines!

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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

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You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what...

How far-out is Trump’s war policy?

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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

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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...

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Just for the hell of it, let’s re-imagine Walmart...

Big Coal buys access to 4th graders

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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If you choose to dance with the devil, never flatter yourself that you're in the lead...