Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – Election Night 2024 is two days away and even 966 miles west of Washington, D.C. the tension in the air is so heavy it makes me seriously regret giving up my predilection for Xanax 20 years ago, about the time Hunter S. Thompson killed himself…
Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – HARRISBURG, Ark. – Not much is at stake in this election. Only the future of democracy itself. The stakes were so high in 2020 that nearly 63 percent of eligible voters in the United States cast ballots in the election, enough to block Donald Trump from remaining in…
News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats have tried to frame Donald Trump as an aberration of the country’s democratic norms and political traditions for years. It worked for Joe Biden in 2020, when he argued that as president, Trump “eroded the soul of the nation.” It did not work for Hillary Clinton in…
Staff Report – The Biden-Harris administration continues to announce the spending of billions of dollars to rebuild America’s infrastructure even as the nation focuses on the election next week. But news about these investments seems to generate very little in the way of press coverage, media conversation or attention from the public on social media.…
The Democrats will retake control of the House in January – Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There’s almost no way the Democrats can lose the House in 2024. At a race baiting rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump hinted at “a little secret” he had with House Speaker Mike Johnson, who…
Guest Column – By George Zadigian – Deception. It’s been a plague on humanity ever since Eve was beguiled to take a bite from the apple. Seeded and cultivated by those determined to profit from it, deception has driven many wars and resulted in incalculable destruction, heartache and loss of human potential. President Johnson told…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – “These are the times that try men’s souls,” Tom Paine once wrote in a famous essay drumming up support for the American Revolution. The American Crisis: By Thomas Paine – 1776 Now a woman writer named Margaret Sullivan, formerly the media columnist for The…
By Glynn Wilson – POCAHONTAS, Ark. – With less than two weeks to go before the Nov. 5 election, Democratic operative James Carville of Louisiana acknowledged the “palpable anxiety” out here in the wind of American life on Wednesday in a column in the New York Times. While claiming he is not one to take…
By Glynn Wilson – No matter how this election turns out, my retirement from political news and journalism is imminent. Social media has made news, journalism and facts irrelevant, even as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are making the first big social media program Facebook irrelevant, by ignoring and downplaying news and politics. No matter that…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – Some writers claim to compose in their head while in the shower. That’s not my style. I mostly like short showers anyway, on the road, unless I can find a bathtub somewhere. Writing has long come easy to me. Except in…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. – You never know what you’re going to find until you find it. Mark Twain once said “travel is fatal to prejudice.” But prejudice is not my problem. The Bible says the love of money is the root of evil, but that’s not my problem…
By Glynn Wilson – HARRISON, Ark. – It seems fitting to visit Boone County on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, since Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the area, beginning with cliff dwellers who lived in caves in the bluffs along the Buffalo and White Rivers. The Osage Sioux were the dominant tribe, along with the…
Staff Report – Lilly Ledbetter, whose lawsuit against her employer paved the way for the Fair Pay Act of 2009 and who dedicated decades of her life to fighting for equal pay, died in Alabama on Saturday, her family said in a statement. She was 86. The cause was respiratory failure, the statement said, and…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Y’all are not going to believe this. As fate would have it, and irony of ironies considering my Alabama history, we will be visiting a town this week that gained national tabloid fame in November, 2016, as “the most racist town in America.” I kid you not. I…
By Glynn Wilson – With less than four weeks to go before the critical election on Nov. 5, anxiety is off the charts in the United States, especially in hurricane ravaged Florida and North Carolina where Hurricanes Helene and Milton are making it hard for people to even think about voting. Thousands of weary residents…
Video by Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – One of the great things about traveling to new places and meeting new people is finding out about the history and cultural of a place. On the campaign trail with Rodney Govens on Thursday speaking at a Voter Education event on Disability Rights in Arkansas at the…
Staff Report – JONESBORO, Ark. – The state Public Television network held a debate on Tuesday between candidates in the First Congressional District in Eastern Arkansas, between the incumbent Republican and challengers from the Democrat and Libertarian parties. The issues included the role and funding for the Federal Emergency Management agency in natural disasters, the…
Will people finally wake up when they finally feel the hurt? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – They say life is a journey, and you never know where you might end up. For many people, life seems more like a slog, from one hard day of work for a bad boss and…
By Glynn Wilson – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – The actor Wendell Pierce who played the Rev. Hosea Williams in the move “Selma,” trombone player Antoine Batiste in “Treme” and Detective Bunk Moreland in the acclaimed HBO drama series “The Wire,” broke off from traveling the country campaigning for Democrats with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz…
Staff Report – JONESBORO, Ark. – Republican Congressman Rick Crawford was a no show Thursday night in his home town televised debate by Arkansas State University Television, as Democrat Rodney Govens and Libertarian Steve Parsons went back and forth on the critical problems facing the people in U.S. House District One and potential solutions for…
