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The Hightower Lowdown
The Bush energy pose, the FTAA farce & Biotech cynicism
"...a word about it in last year's election. The corporate media did nothing to inform the people about the..."

June 1, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City
City Manager Jesus Garza forms a top-level committee to oversee neighborhood services.
"...City Council in a briefing last week, a "neighborhood corporate team" to oversee the city's "new neighborhood focus." Go,..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Media Clips
Corporate media giants cause journalism to become less competitive; Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers speak at The Daily Texan's 100th birthday event; Grassroots Media Conference held in Austin
"...Fortunately, there are voices outside this corporate world that are willing to speak up. Robert W...."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Column by Lee Nichols

Beyond the Multiverse
Author Michael Moorcock
"...it for over 10 years now, of working with non-corporate publishers. It pays off. Actually, those non-corporate publishers are..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Party Circuit
The Real Southwest Conference
"...operation is so large that he oversees three divisions: Corporate, Club, and Collegiate. "And then we'll get a call..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Chain Reaction
In Book Wars, Independent Shops Become Casualties
"...independents. We don't want to be seen as the corporate bad guy. We want to come in and be..."

Nov. 29, 1996 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle
He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.
"...there is no responsibility in American politics or in corporate America to provide care for the citizens. That is..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Hightower Report: A Political Party Worth Joining
"...to. Admission is free, but Bob Fest is also corporate-free, rejecting any funding or ads by corporate interests. It's..."

Oct. 21, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
Should big corporations have to pay the taxes they owe?
"...herd of lambs before I'd trust a pack of corporate hucksters to "reform" America's tax code...."

Feb. 26, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Obama's Bizarre Sales Pitch for TPP
Obama's trying to sell the TPP; Hightower's not buying it
"...a trade scam called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It's a corporate wet dream that would let profiteering giants in Japan,..."

May 22, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Be the "Wave" That Sweeps Away TPP
Jim Hightower wants YOU to stop TPP!
"...of negotiating the Trans-Pacif­ic Partnership behind closed doors, the corporate and governmental elites who've drafted this Declaration of Corporate..."

May 1, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: McDonald's Desperately Seeks Love
McDonald's preaches "lovin'," but does that gospel extend to its treatment of its employees?
"...been repackaging expired meat. Nor do they love McDonald's corporate-wide policy of paying poverty wages, its ruthless anti-union tactics,..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
Exposing the secret corporate coup of our democratic elections
"...of us real, human-type people. Using their shareholders' money, corporate entities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
A gross purchase of GOP governors
"...to buy politicians who then deliver public policies the corporate donors want. And perhaps you think this is corrupt,..."

Oct. 10, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Mail?
The Paula Deen story gets wackier every day
"...supporters to send clean butter wrappers to all the corporate partners who have dropped Deen in the wake of..."

July 18, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Hightower Report: Remember Montana!
Corrupting the Corrupt Practices Act
"...out-of-state mining corporations known as the "copper kings." Those corporate powers were exploiting Montana's workforce, extracting its public resources,..."

July 6, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
The new super PACs amount to a corporate takeover of national politics
"...of cards collapsed, "Enron accounting" not only continues in Corporate America today, it is also infesting an endeavor that..."

Sept. 23, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Brand Upon the Brain
Art and advertising collide in the burgeoning genre of branded documentary
"...singers) are the coolest guys in the room. And corporate synergy campaigns make it possible for even the blandest..."

July 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix
QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable
"...you buy. I do want to start talking about corporate sponsorship at some point in this conversation. But I..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Point Austin: The Chosen One
Jury finds DeLay guilty of money-laundering and conspiracy
"...team, and the jury, of his argument that no corporate money had been laundered by his client because, DeGuerin..."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Column by Michael King

DeLay Trial: Jury Hanging Fire
No verdict, but 'making progress'
"...action committee that in 2002 sent $190,000 in "soft" (corporate) money to the Republican National State Elec­tion Com­mit­tee in..."

Nov. 26, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: A Hill of Beans
Tom DeLay's story is a profile in political corruption
"...DeLay accountable for the money-laundering swap of $190,000 in corporate ("soft") money to the Repub­lican National Committee in return..."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

DeLay Trial: How Soft Money Gets Hard
DeLay trial begins
"...he allegedly put in motion by laundering $190,000 in corporate campaign donations ("soft money") to his brainchild, the Texans..."

Nov. 5, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Fighting the New Civil War
"...a human, an American citizen, going to allow a corporate entity, a legal creation on paper, to have the..."

Oct. 13, 2010 Postmarks

The Hightower Report
Pocketful of Coal; and Go for the Feingold
"...In a letter to his corporate colleagues in the industry, a top executive of International..."

Sept. 24, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Greens On The Ballot (For Now) UPDATED
TX supremes grant stay on earlier ruling
"...Take Initiative America was clearly part of an illegal corporate campaign contribution. However, at a rain-soaked press conference on..."

July 2, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report
Billion Dollar Tax Loophole; and Oil Spill Blame Game
"...– a bit of accounting hocus pocus that transfers corporate profits to subsidiaries in low-tax countries abroad, while ascribing..."

May 21, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
Hiding Worker Injuries; and The Good Food Movement
"...Why flout the law? Because corporate executives, always guarding their own bottom line, know that..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
Corporate Monsters; and Change at the Chamber
"...Corporate Monsters..."

Oct. 30, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report
USDA and Synthetic Organics; and Chevron Runs but Can't Hide
"...Barbara Robinson, the corporate-friendly director of the agency's organic program, agrees with the..."

Aug. 21, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

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