The Highroad
Your new neighborhood food market
The signature phrase of America’s booming good food movement has been expanded from “organic” to “local and sustainable...
Classy banks
Another way that the rich are different from you and me is that their bankers serve freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies to them...
Advancing our right to trial by jury
boulderweekly.com/highroad One thing that gives me good cheer is the periodic eruption of legal common sense that provides a little more justice in our society. The latest advance comes from a state not known for progressive eruptions: Georgia. In 2005, the ...
Food manipulators trying to deceive voters
An old adage says, “Never buy a pig in a poke.” But what about a poke hidden in a pig...
Spreading weapons in the name of peace
Hey, Bucko — stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others...
Seeing China from the new World Trade Center
You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down...
Help Elizabeth Warren fight the madness
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. That was the title of a kooky 1960s movie, but an even kookier sequel could be made today starring the mad, mad, mad, mad Republican leaders of the U.S. House...
What’s inside Big Oil’s head?
As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.” That was no lefty talking — it was George W. Bush...
Pop goes our anti-poppy policy
Recently, I found myself humming the Old Beatles song Poppy Fields Forever...
Tilling our public treasury
Some aspects of American agriculture are quite odd. For example, to meet a farmer these days, there’s no need for you to venture out to the hinterland — because thousands of them actually are city slickers...
