The Highroad
The Great ScAmazon of 2017
In September, the giant retail monopolist, Amazon, announced its intention to build a second corporate headquarters in Someplace, North America.
Where’s that? Aha, that’s...
Look out, BP’s doing it again!
boulderweekly.com/highroad Ok, people, nature needs us to focus. All of us who love polar bears, whales, seabirds and other wildlife should put our minds together to send an urgent telepathic message to the animals in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Our message ...
The Highroad
The Highroad boulderweekly.com/highroad Big banks gouge customers for fun, profit...
Billionaire bullies
Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days — quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America...
Kissing bankers’ butts
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 ...
Koch industries doesn’t just lobby government, it’s becoming the government
The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns over the majority will of the people has always been...
Has America turned right-wing? Or nuts?
Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride.
Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that)....
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 ...
The spreading plague of antibacterial products
Chances are you have, but don’t know it. These two are antimicrobial chemicals, which might sound like a good thing, except that they disrupt the human body’s normal regulatory processes. Animal studies show, for example, that these triclos can be linked to the ...
Why can’t our economy promote equality and shared prosperity?
You don’t have to be in “Who’s Who” to know what’s what. For example, if a tiny group of Wall Street bankers, billionaires and...
A new player for Ohio State football games
In the ever-escalating competition to be the Number One big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx...
