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…
By Glynn Wilson – If justice was indeed blind and fair in all cases, Donald Trump would be standing trial today for his crimes against the United States Constitution and American democracy, not running for president again as a major party’s nominee. New evidence disclosed in a court brief made public on Wednesday by Federal…
By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – Minnesota Governor and Vice Presidential contender Tim Walz shamed Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance of Ohio Wednesday night in the only vice presidential debate of 2024 on CBS, when Vance had no answer for the most basic of questions: Did Trump lose the 2020 election?…
By Glynn Wilson – JONESBORO, Ark. – A federal judge from Indonesia who attended Auburn University and the University of Alabama School of Law and was appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims by Ronald Reagan in 1986, ruled last week that a lawsuit filed by a Republican Congressman from Arkansas against the government…
Staff Report – JONESBORO, Ark. – No one thought it could be done. Every president and Congress since the administration of Ronald Reagan has talked about passing a national infrastructure bill to rebuild America’s crumbling roads and bridges and more. They could never agree and get it done. That all changed in 2021, however, when…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – With only five weeks to go until the election on Nov. 5, the stakes could not be higher as the latest public opinion polls still show a close race for president. Although the latest compilation average of all the polls show that Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican…
The New York Times Editorial Board endorsed Kamala Harris as the only patriotic choice for president of the United States. The editorial board of the New American Journal concurs in that endorsement, and finds no flaw in the reasoning of this group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and longstanding…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – HARDY, Ark. – It takes time to get oriented in a new place as a writer, especially after experiencing nearly catastrophic trauma on the road. But less than two weeks after leaving Maryland and passing through Virginia, West Virginia, a sliver of Missouri and crossing the Mississippi…
