The Highroad

Turf wars can be the silliest of all scuffles, and no place does silly with more zeal than Texas...

Prostitutes are amateurs compared to Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, whose going rate is $20,000 a pop. At least that’s what he was paid last year by Waste Control Specialists...

And now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don’t fume about the GOP’s lunatic effort to kill health care reform — just laugh at their farcical show...

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...

boulderweekly.com/highroad Has your banker stopped by to thank you yet? Thanks are due, of course, for your share of the $700 billion bailout that we taxpayers provided for the giant banks after their greedy and reckless behavior imploded our nation’s financial ...

Thanks to the industrializers of American agriculture, we finally know why the chicken crossed the road: To run away from the factory farm...

In response to the Supreme Court’s freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political “personhood” on corporations, I got an email from a guy named Larry, screaming that “big money has plucked our eagle...

"Banker” and “morality” are not concepts you would ever expect to find paired together, but some of the biggest bankers in Europe are rushing out to insist that, at heart, they are all about morality...

"I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times...

Excellent news, consumers: Biotech giants that’ve been secretly inserting genetically engineered organisms into thousands of food products you buy have just announced that they’re coming clean...

Perhaps you thought that, surely, partisan posturing by far-right congress critters couldn’t get any nuttier. But now comes the GOP’s claim that all the talk about impeaching President Barack Obama is being led by — guess who? — Barack Obama...

For me, the most significant statistic coming out of this year’s Super Bowl was not the 31-25 score in the Green Bay Packers’ hard-fought victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nor was it the $1.3 billion cost of the new, monstrously huge football palace built by ...