The Highroad

Have you had your minimum daily requirement of “nanos” today...

Earth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on our globe. Should we weep? Or cheer? Both. The first step toward any recovery is admitting that we have a problem. In fact, beaucoup of them. For example, despite the squawking of profiteering polluters and...

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 ...

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

In the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago, unregulated energy hucksters created an array of dummy financial funds so they could evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, the funds were given such names as Chewco and JEDI...

What if a political party’s platform actually stood for workaday people, rather than being a catalogue of far-out, right-wing nuttiness, or a batch of...

I like the word “lift.” It implies upward progress and a can-do communal spirit: Yes, let´s all put our backs into it, and lift this load. It´s so American...

Some are born with good luck. But I was 30 years old before Lady Luck smiled on me with full radiance, arriving in the...

What’s the matter with Donald and The Trumpateers? Why won’t they stand up for the American workers and business owners who make their products...

Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride.        Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that)....

In California, a surprising new union movement is growing like a weed, having taken root in a burgeoning economic sector that has enormous potential: marijuana...

Some stories of corporate villainy make me throw up my hands in astonishment. But this one makes me literally throw up. The sorry saga of...