The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — If I had the power to change the national debate away from Trump’s distracting tweets, this is what I would have us all talking about. In recent years, with all the climate change related coverage of impacts from global warming, including massive hurricanes and…
By Glynn Wilson – CUNNINGHAM FALLS BY CAMP DAVID, Md. — In an extraordinary revelation set to change the subject of the news away from President Donald Trump’s sharpie scandal over changing the track map for Hurricane Dorian to show a threat to Alabama, the president revealed Saturday that he had been planning a secret…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Americans celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday in September with barbecue, beans and boat rides, this is a good time to reflect on the status of organized labor in the United States in terms of politics and public opinion. This should be a big anniversary for…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you have an interest in the national seat of power in this broken American democracy, as I do, your path will take you here to the nation’s capital. There’s lots to see and do here. If you also have an interest in saving…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the U.S. island of Puerto Rico dodged the worst damaging winds and flooding on the weak side of Hurricane Dorian, hot Atlantic Ocean waters of up to 85 degrees fueled the system from a tropical storm into a deadly category 4 hurricane on Friday and Saturday as…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Monday he is joining a coalition of 20 attorneys general in states across the country in filing a lawsuit opposing the Trump administration’s new proposed rule allowing the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody along the border of Mexico…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation’s capital in reprieve this weekend from the summer heat waves, heat domes and thunderstorms pounding in from the southwest, what locals like to think of as a harbinger of fall, turning away from the news it might be easy to forget…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s hot as hell could be inside the Beltway again, with a projected high on Sunday of 96 degrees and a low of only 75 tonight, a harbinger of the future for cities along the Eastern Seaboard. As I hit the button to publish this…
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments announced a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday over the Trump administration’s proposed new Affordable Clean Energy rule, which rolls back decades of regulations aimed at cleaning up air pollution from coal-fired power plants and virtually erases progress by the Obama administration’s…
By Phil Rockstroh – The U.S. is less of a nation than a collective, psychotic episode. Within day to day life in the nation, a cultural aura exists that shifts, mingles, and merges between a sense of nervous agitation and displaced rage, in combination with a sense of weightlessness. The fragmented quality of daily life…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Is it possible the promotion of a false political myth that democracy and capitalism are one and the same, and a layman’s view of Social Darwinism as a good thing, has spawned a nation of psychopaths and elected a Psychopath-in-Chief? According to experts, the…
By Glynn Wilson – In another international report that will be largely ignored in Washington with climate change deniers in the White House and the number of federal employees and government regulations dwindling, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland and is set to release its latest…
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of six state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the Trump Environmental Protection Agency for continuing to allow the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on crops that end up contaminating common foods and endangering the neurological development of…
By Glynn Wilson – SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. — Looking back on it now, with all the turmoil we face these days in the United States and American publishing, it must have been grand to be the first American writer to make a living with the pen — and to be acknowledged by critics the world…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington NEW YORK, N.Y. – As Commander of the Continental Army, General George Washington became known not for winning battles against the British so much,…
Glynn Wilson – We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russia interfered in an American election in 2016, and that they and other hostile powers are already preparing to do it again in 2020. In fact there is no scintilla of doubt, and if given the chance, an honest grand jury would rule…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — They say if you listen close enough at night by the creeks in these parts, you can still hear the cries of some of the ghosts of the 51,000 soldiers who bled and died here in the effort to save or break up the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. – Imagine this: What if, back in the 1960s, you could have been reading John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley: In Search of America in daily bytes on a website and found out when he posted something new with a social media platform like Facebook? Would…
“The Revolution had come and passed, And Young America, gathered about, Received his tales with many a doubt…” – George P. Webster, Legend of Rip Van Winkle Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — The heat pressed down over Washington and came with a suffocating invisible cloud of ozone, making it hard…
