The Highroad
Why doesn’t Congress do what the people want and need?
If you wonder why Congress critters keep ignoring what the people want them to do — while doing things that people don’t want them...
Why are Republicans so quiet about their chief economic accomplishment?
Listen... can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just...
Should we entrust our school children to corporate profiteers?
Betsy DeVos and her hubby, Dick, are lucky enough to have inherited a big chunk of the multibillion-dollar fortune that Daddy DeVos amassed through...
The dirty little secret of private equity profits
Executives in private equity firms — such as Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts — tend to be peacocks who think quite highly of themselves...
The Highroad
The Highroad boulderweekly.com/highroad Big banks gouge customers for fun, profit...
What’s behind this photo of corporate groundbreaking?
A newspaper photograph last June portrayed three guys in suits and ties shoveling dirt. They were Donald Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and the chairman...
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...
Time for Democratic Party leaders to get going — or go
Good news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine and are beginning to act like... well, like Democrats!
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Rampaging debt collectors are committing highway robbery
Some corporations engage in such abusive consumer ripoffs that they’re just evil. But some profiteers dig even deeper into the dark void of their...
Get a whiff of ‘synthetic biology’
It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers...
Daddy’s philosophy
This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves...
