Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you still working from home and staying home most of the time, avoiding contact with members of the public as much as possible and wearing a mask when you must go out to the store? If you are still feeling the stress and…
Look Away, Look Away from the Dixie Caucus
The Secret But True Story of Network News and The Happy Pill
Satire – Fiction – Film Proposal -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. â Here’s a movie script idea for Netflix or one of the other streaming companies. FADE UP FROM BLACK – A secret cabal of corporate executives are huddled in a conference room in a New York skyscraper. They are watching video clips…
Joe Biden: My Plan to Extend Medicare for Another Generation
Guest Column – By Joe Biden – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of Americans work their whole life, paying into Medicare with every working day â starting with their first job, even as teenagers. Medicare is more than a government program. Itâs the rock-solid guarantee that Americans have counted on to be there for them when…
Operation Zap: A Novel and Film by Aaron Murphy
Editor’s Note: In 1992, while working as a staff writer and reporter for a chain of newspapers on the Gulf Coast, I stumbled onto a dangerous story involving electromagnetic fields and pulses being developed by Naval Intelligence in Pensacola, Florida. The stories I wrote about it were so controversial that a rogue agent working for…
What’s Better for Us? Nostalgia For the Past or Hope For the Future?
Biden Administration Announces $250 Million in Spending to Tackle Climate Pollution
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration announced Wednesday it is making $250 million available to develop innovative strategies to cut climate pollution and build clean energy economies. The money will distributed in the form of planning grants through the Environmental Protection Agency, and the funding will go to states, local governments, Tribes,…
Lessons Learned About Violence, Chaos and the Need to Tell the Truth from the Coen Brothers’ ‘Fargo’
War in Ukraine Drags On: Is it Time for ‘Regime Change’ in Russia?
Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Stands With Black Students Protesting Racism in a Tuscaloosa High School
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if young people don’t have it hard enough these days after having their lives and educations upended by a global pandemic, with mental health issues and suicide rates rising and college entrance levels falling. And as if African Americans didn’t already have a…
Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts
By Topher Sanders and Dan Schwartz – ProPublica – ProPublica learned of the policy after reviewing the rules of the company, which is engulfed in controversy after one of its trains derailed this month, releasing toxic flammable gas over East Palestine, Ohio. The policy applies specifically to the company’s Wayside Detector Help Desk, which monitors…
The American Crisis: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Editor’s Note: We publish this here today in honor of President’s Day, and especially to honor George Washington’s brilliant plan to cross the Delaware River and attack the British Red Coats at Trenton, New Jersey on the night of December 25, 1776, which turned the tide and gave the American Revolution the public opinion boost…
Biden Administration Announces $48.6 Million in Spending to Combat Climate Change and Fight Wild Fires
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration announced new spending of $48.6 million Tuesday on projects to mitigate wildfire risks across the country, which will also improve water quality, restore forest ecosystems and combat climate change. The announcement comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which along with the Natural Resources Conservation…
Common Sense: By Thomas Paine – 1776
Celebrating Nine Years of Publishing News in the Nation’s Capital
Biden’s Idea to Limit ‘Junk Fees’ is a Hit With the American Public
Junk Fees Prevention Act Enjoys Overwhelming, Bipartisan Support – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Let’s face it, President Joe Biden has not been the most universally popular president, with his job approval ratings consistently in the low 40s. But his idea to limit “junk fees” by law appears to have hit a major nerve…
Biden Administration Announces Details of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration announced guidelines for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program this week created under the Inflation Reduction Act, which will dole out $27 billion in federal spending over the next few years to mobilize billions more in private capital to reduce pollution and improve public health, lower…
Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If: A Father’s Advice to His Son’
Alabama Department of Corrections Officer Charged with Violating the Civil Rights of Inmates by Using Excessive Force
Officer Also Charged with Obstructing the Investigation – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment on Wednesday charging a former Alabama Department of Corrections officer with excessive use of force and two obstruction offenses. Lieutenant Mohammad Shahid Jenkins used excessive force on two inmates – V.R. and D.H.…
State of the Union Followup: Biden Administration Rolls Out First Electric Buses at Kansas School
EPA Administrator Regan Marks Delivery of Kansas’ First Electric School Buses, Announcing Electric Utility Pledge to Support Electric School Buses Nationwide – EPA Highlights Progress to Invest in America Through Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just on the heels of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, with…