By Glynn Wilson – It’s a scene right out of an apocalyptic movie, only no one was awake to see it — and there’s no viral video footage to show. It was midnight, Dec. 21, 2008, when a failure of a dike containing coal ash on the bank of the Emory River at the Tennessee…
Staff Report – The Biden administration is further extending the deadline for citizens to go through the process of verifying their identity through the Real ID program due to circumstances resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The enforcement date will now be pushed back by by 19 months, from October 1, 2021 to May 3,…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered a sweeping address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday making a case to the world that the American government is back on the job after four years of disastrous craziness. His speech calling on Congress to act on climate change, a major infrastructure bill and…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Is the glass half full or half empty? It’s unclear whether we should report this as good news, meaning we are making progress informing the American public to pay attention to climate change news, or bad news showing that half of Americans are ignorant boobs. According to…
Staff Report – A right-wing Trump supporter from South Carolina was arrested and charged last week for assaulting police officers and destroying government property during the Capitol insurrection on January 6, according to a press release just out from the U.S. Department of Justice. The department unsealed a complaint this week against Nicholas Languerand, 26,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It would be hard to imagine making it through the hellscape year of 2020 and the COVID winter and spring of 2021 without the internet — or the art of movies. As frustrating as new computer technology can be sometimes, how could we have possibly made it…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – The story is so far so good for President Joe Biden in his first 100 days in office as a clear majority of Americans support the job he is doing. Public opinion survey research shows his job approval rating at 57 percent positive, according to the latest…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Back in late January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Click for human survival on planet Earth at 100 seconds until midnight, mainly due to the mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic by the Trump administration in the United States. At that time, they were…
Staff Report – Fewer cars and more walking, less coal power and more wind turbines and solar panels, and fewer farting cows and more Impossible Burgers — the Most Sustainable Cities in the U.S. are leading the way in efforts to save the planet. Some cities, though, are belching smoke, throwing away recyclables, and dragging…
By Isaac Arnsdorf and Derek Willis – Republished from ProPublica – Two of the leading Republican firebrands in Congress touted big fundraising hauls as a show of grassroots support for their high-profile stands against accepting the 2020 election results. But new financial disclosures show that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.,…
The American Jobs Plan and Biden’s Made In America Tax Plan Explained – By Glynn Wilson – On the eve of Earth Day 2021, we should be thinking not just about the state of the natural environment and its future. Whether we have much of a future on this planet will depend on creating green…
Staff Report – It’s being billed as a “Wright Brothers” moment on another planet. A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity made space exploration history on Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the air of the red planet, the first flying machine from Earth to become airborne on another planet…
Water Pollution Remains the Top Environmental Concern in the U.S. – Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – The American public is not worried enough about the state of the natural environment to save themselves or the world. That’s not the headline on the latest Gallup poll reporting concern for environmental issues in the…
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – Now that Trump is gone, the CIA can tell the truth. Well, sort of anyway. They could have just quoted the Book of Revelations and been done with it. It’s an old, familiar story. The first trumpet sounds: Hail, fire, and blood rain down on earth, burning up…
By Glynn Wilson – Can we just keep our eye on the ball here? It’s been 100 days since the violent attack on the Capitol of the United States by armed supporters of former President Donald Trump in what can best be described as an “insurrection,” according to experts. How is this anniversary being covered…
Staff Report – A right-wing Trump supporting Virginia man was arrested Wednesday and charged for inflicting bodily harm on a Capitol Police officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. A criminal complaint against Paul Russell Johnson, 35, of Lanexa, Virginia, was unsealed Thursday by the United States Department of Justice and Russell made…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Remove the profit motive and the need for a happy ending. What stories are left? In this time of epic hardship, is it more important to talk about the world as it is, show it in all its gore and reality in a mirror,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – All of a sudden I’m feeling an unquenched desire to start practicing Yoga. Why? Maybe because I just heard that the conservative, Christian Republicans in the Alabama legislature are dead set on keeping it banned from public schools. If they don’t like it, it must be good.…
Staff Report – Another neo-Nazi who threatened the lives of American journalists for covering the news along with advocates against anti-Semitism pleaded guilty this week in federal court and will do time in prison, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Cameron Shea, 25, a leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen…
Staff Report – The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation continue to make arrests and charge more domestic terrorists with crimes for breaching the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and trying to prevent the certification of the 2020 election. This week, a member of the Proud Boys and his brother…
