The Highroad
A clueless dealmaker’s deal goes down
Why? That’s the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders’ relentless push to demonize and kill...
Wall Street gets giddy over the urge to merge
Uh-oh. You always have to worry when you hear that there’s a new “air of giddiness on Wall Street...
U.S. Postal Service selling out workers and… America
You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what...
Gagging on ag-gag laws
Factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals...
Fracking the First Amendment
It’s one thing for Big Oil frackers to bust into our Earth, our communities and our economic well-being — but the fracking fad is also busting the free speech rights of locals who dare to speak out against it...
Corporate arrogance and government ignorance
Arrogance is an unpleasant trait, but when it’s overlaid with ignorance, it really gets ugly...
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...
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 ...
The economy is up! Or is it down?
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 ...
No more Americans should die for Karzai
One person was giddy with excitement upon hearing President Obama’s announcement that all of America’s combat troops would depart from Afghanistan by 2014: Hamid Karzai...
There’s a word for Trump’s latest flimflamming of workers
By gollies, The Donald delivers!
Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to create millions of American jobs....
Measuring Congress by the numbers
Never have so few done so little for so many. But at last, they’re gone — Congress has adjourned for the year...






