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…
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…
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…
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…
Editor’s Note: We publish this here today in honor of President’s Day. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Please forgive us if we do not pander to our audience by writing and publishing what we think people want to hear, like Tucker Carlson at Fox News. It would be nice to think people appreciate this. But I’m not so sure they do…
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…
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…
By Rudyard Kipling – If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal…
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.…
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…
Watch the Video – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Read the Full Text – Remarks of President Joe Biden – State of the Union Address as Prepared for Delivery – The United States Capitol – Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Leaders of our military. Mr.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Declarative statement: You cannot have a non-partisan Department of Justice and a “fair and blindfolded” system of justice if only one side plays by the rules. Sorry to have to be the one to break the news. It’s just a fact. I know it’s…
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been much hand wringing and commentary on what’s wrong with America, democracy and why people don’t trust the federal government, which led in part to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. We submit that the reason is pretty obvious and right in front of everyone’s face. Republicans have been running for office for…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — I told y’all he was coming to Washington in the new year with a political agenda to help feed fake dirt to the Republicans in the House. Sure enough — totally unlike Mr. Smith who came to Washington in another era for a far…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration announced a major national initiative on Friday to begin work to replace lead pipes across the country using funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is still trying to recover from being gutted and corrupted by the Trump administration, will lead…
By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the hands of the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight this week, the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been, largely because of the mounting dangers of Russia using nuclear weapons in the…
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell’s 1984 QUOTE of the DAY – “The Republicans have brought the QAnon caucus to the Oversight Committee, and you can expect them to run with the most ludicrous conspiracy theories one can ever imagine.†– Freshman Congressman Dan Goldman, Democrat from New York…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Department of Justice and eight states filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four more members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia found themselves being declared guilty of seditious conspiracy on Monday by a D.C. jury for their roles in trying to halt the peaceful transfer of power in the United States for the first time, and prevent the rightful winner…
