The Highroad

Desite 234 years of progress toward the American ideal of equality for all, we still have to battle unfairness...

It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus, but it’s time for progressives to focus on the outer...

National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...

Great news, people. As a recent headline puts it: “Household wealth back at pre-recession levels.” Oh joy — we’re all rich again...

Come on, Obama, do it!  Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes ...

Lightning’s flashing, winds are howling — and there’s a tempest in the tea party! Why it’s Dick Armey, the blowhard, former Republican majority leader, corporate lobbyist, Koch brothers’ retainer and commanding general of the tea party army...

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...

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 ...

By gollies, America is still an exporting powerhouse. In fact, our corporate chieftains have made us number one in exporting America’s most precious goods — our jobs, factories, technologies and middle-class opportunities...

The high-rollers who run Wall Street’s top hedge funds essentially gamble with other people’s money, betting billions of dollars on such stuff as whether XYZ Corporation’s third-quarter profits will be one point lower than forecast. Doing this, they assert, is ...

An old cliché says: “Hard work always pays off...

Being a congress critter is not as cushy a job as many assume. After all, they have to write legislation, organize hearings, write speeches, round up votes and do all sorts of other legislative-y things to pass laws...