The Highroad

Wall Street gets giddy over the urge to merge

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Uh-oh. You always have to worry when you hear that there’s a new “air of giddiness on Wall Street...

Another corporate path for buying our governmet

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boulderweekly.com/highroad Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t have enough power over our government. If so, let me soothe your fevered brow with a report ...

Wild about wild chickens

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Some people complain that their town has gone to the dogs, but Bastrop, Texas, has gone to the chickens — and Bastropians are proud of it...

Counterfeit conservatives

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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...

Propagandizing school kids for corporate profit

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Are you a parent who’s worried about the plethora of highly questionable bio-engineered organisms that agribusiness profiteers have quietly been slipping into everything from snack foods to school lunches? Well, perhaps your own children can put your mind at ease, ...

Seeing China from the new World Trade Center

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You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down...

Citigroup becomes its own self-serving lawmaker

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Perhaps you recall from high school civics class that neat flow chart showing the beautiful democratic process for passing a law through Congress...

Monsanto’s Wizard-of-Oz website

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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...

The ‘Beckinization’ of the far right

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Perhaps you thought that, surely, the far right wing in American politics couldn’t get any nuttier. If so, you clearly hadn’t factored in Glenn Beck...

A Congress of comics: Laugh ’til it hurts

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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...

Entergy goes nuclear over Vermont’s decision

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The nuclear power boys are weaseling again, this time in Vermont...

The real stink in Flint, Michigan’s water scandal

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The governor and his agency heads who caused the sudden appearance of lead and other toxics in the water that the families of Flint...