The Highroad

It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Bush directed that an electronic “virtual fence” be built to detect “bad guys” trekking into our country. Of course, like all things Bush, he ...

  Wow, that was an exhilarating election, wasn’t it? Of course, even a car wreck can be exhilarating...

Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...

Meet Scott Walker, corporate whore...

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

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

boulderweekly.com/highroad Good news, people! The economy is roaring like a tiger again, so we shoppers are now willing and able to spend more. I know this is true, because it says so right here on the front page of the business section of my local daily, the ...

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...

Imagine “net zero.” That’s the wonky phrase attached to an elegant idea — namely, converting communities to total renewable energy, complete recycling, and a culture of conservation to bring humankind’s carbon footprint into a sustainable balance with a healthy earth...

Oh them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investigator of banker pay, that top executives of 17 financial giants ...

Tenacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity...

Great news, people: a hot spot of nine-spotted ladybugs has been spotted in Amagansett, N.Y...