The Highroad
Big Coal buys access to 4th graders
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...
Counterfeit conservatives
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...
Wild about wild chickens
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...
Biotech runs amuck. Again
When asked what the world needs, people tend to go all gushy and offer up such fuzzy stuff as “world peace” and “more kindness...
What if antibiotics no longer work?
Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes...
Monsanto takes a tumble
Poor Monsanto — the mighty and haughty manipulator of Mother Nature has tripped on its own hubris, falling far, fast and hard this year...
If you only watch your bottom line, you can’t lift your...
Just for the hell of it, let’s re-imagine Walmart...
Which Mitch do you believe?
boulderweekly.com/highroad As Lily Tomlin has said, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” She could’ve been referring to Sen. Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans in Congress, whose cynical hypocrisy either makes you want to ...
Stepping steadily upward on Massey’s corporate ladder
Every day on the job, hundreds of miners descend deep into the earth. And every time they go down, each of them wonders: “Will I make it back to the top today?” These days, though, miners and their families are wondering if federal prosecutors will make it to the top...
Paying the price of the Afghanistan war
boulderweekly.com/highroadThe good news is that the U.S. Senate and House are at last uniting in a truly bipartisan push to put billions of our tax dollars into the urgent national need for better schools, transportation and other essential services. Unfortunately...
Alec’s legislative bawdy house
Do you know Alec? You probably do, even though you never heard of it. Yes, “it.” Not a person, ALEC is the acronym for a secretive, corporate-funded, state policy front group: American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC’s “exchange” is very straightforward — it ...
