The Highroad

boulderweekly.com/highroad Good news, people. General Motors has turned a profit! However, there’s bad news, too: GM’s top executives are insane. By which I mean bonkers, loopy, bull-goose crazy. How else to explain the carmaker’s recent effort to rebrand “Chevy...

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...

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...

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...

Some members of Congress complain that they have a really tough job. Also, they say their hard work is not appreciated by the public and that they’re really not paid enough...

Here comes Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas! It’s a month-long season of friends and family, spiritual reflection and time to decompress from our usual helter-skelter lives, right...

My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, known as the “White Maned Pontificator,” has recently been spewing a fountain of free-market dogma in the debate over health care reform...

My congratulations to workers in 16 states — from Maine to Georgia, New Jersey to Colorado! Many of you will be thrilled to know that the income taxes deducted from your paychecks each month are going to a very worthy cause: your corporate boss...

Near my home in Austin, Texas, there’s an old refurbished motel with a keep-it-real attitude that is expressed right on its iconic marquee: “No additives, No preservatives, Corporate-free since 1938...

Years ago the delightfully-naughty movie star, Mae West, said: “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted...

In these times of nationwide job insecurity, with five applicants lined up for every job opening, CEOs warn workers that they’d better perform — or else. Or else they’ll be unceremoniously booted out the door...