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Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox Campaigns for Governor in Mobile and Baldwin County
By Glynn Wilson – DAPHNE, Ala. — The “unwavering hero” of the massive tornado that struck Tuscaloosa in 2011, Walter Maddox, at 45, may be the early front runner in a crowded field of candidates for governor of Alabama. On a campaign swing through Baldwin County and Mobile Thursday night, the Tuscaloosa mayor said why…
Spring Bird Migration Coming Soon Along the Gulf Coast
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. – As the spring bird migration approaches along the Gulf Coast my mind turns to birds. Soon millions of migratory species will make their way back across the Gulf of Mexico and grace our shores and marshes for a few weeks after their trans-Gulf flight on their way north…
Kushner’s Unconscionable Conflicts Exacerbate Public Distrust of Government
By Robert Reich – Before I turn to Jared Kushner, let me ask: Do you believe the U.S. government does the right thing all or most of the time? The Gallup organization started asking this question in 1963, when over 70 percent of Americans said they did. Since then, the percent has steadily declined. By…
Still Unrepentant for Grievous Sins, Former Judge Roy Moore Appeals to Christians for Money
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It is unclear why the national press should care now, other than the fact that the story is a bit of traffic driving sensational tabloid clickbait, yet a story is making the rounds on Twitter this morning quoting former Ten Commandments judge and Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore…
Discovery of Slave Ship Clotilda Gives Polluted Africatown Publicity Boost
Historically Black Town Fights Toxic Waste – By D. Amari Jackson – In the spring of 1860, a year before the Civil War, a wealthy Alabama shipbuilder and plantation owner named Timothy Meaher chose to toy with the escalating tensions between North and South by making a despicable wager. Despite strict laws forbidding the import…
Senator Doug Jones Urges People in Alabama to Keep the Movement Going
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — His history changing campaign for the United States Senate was a state and national “turning point” and a “watershed,” Senator Doug Jones said to a packed house of supporters on Southside Sunday who came out to celebrate his victory with hot dogs, barbecue and beer. “We were on…
Thinking About An Honest Life by the Singing River in Muscle Shoals
By Glynn Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. — Sitting beside the Tennessee River in McFarland Park by the Florence Visitor’s Center after spending a few days in the quad city area often just called “the shoals,” I cannot help but think about what might have been. What if I had stuck with the music business…
We Can All Learn From the Russian Indictments and Tactics
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — If special counsel Robert Mueller can issue 14 indictments against Russians who conspired to mess with an election in the United States who he will never actually be able to drag into court and jail, why can’t he indict the top man who obviously…
Chris Christie Runs for Attorney General to Make Alabama Great in Government, Not Just Football
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nothing gets the people of Alabama fired up like football. It’s even been called the state religion. But in the best piece of journalism ever published on the subject, Rick Bragg debunked that notion a few years back in Sports Illustrated. “They say college football is religion in…
To Build A Wall
By Rowland Scherman – Mr. Trump has tried very hard to implement his campaign promises, the tax cut for the richest, the dismantling of Obamacare and many others. His idea to build a wall is his plan to protect national security. “Good fences make good neighbors.” Most people, it seems, choose to regard those words…
Protest Trump’s Budget Or Face the Ultimate Disaster
Trump Declares All Out War on the Poor, the Environment, the World – By Glynn Wilson – The hour grows late. The situation dire and dark. The proposed fiscal 2019 federal budget unveiled Monday by President Donald J. Trump, which is certain to draw criticism and debate in Congress and massive acts of resistance…
Exclusive: Video Found of University of Alabama Football Coach Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant
Bear Bryant was interviewed by students at Birmingham’s Parker High School in 1973 – Please click on this link and hit subscribe to our YouTube channel to help save us from losing advertising revenue (see explanation below). Students interview University of Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant at Parker High School in Birmingham the day…
Trump’s 20 Big Broken Promises
To Trump Voters: One Year in, and he’s broken 20 big promises he made to you – By Robert Reich – 1. He told you he’d cut your taxes, and that the super-rich like him would pay more. You bought it. But his new tax law does the opposite. By 2027, according to the nonpartisan…
Massive Reserves of Mercury Hidden Under Thawing Permafrost Could Be Released Due to Warming
Science News – Researchers have discovered that permafrost in the northern hemisphere stores massive amounts of natural mercury, a finding with significant implications for human health and ecosystems worldwide as global temperatures rise and melt the ice covering it up and keeping it trapped. In a new study published in in Geophysical Research Letters, a…
Former Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Runs From House Intel Committee Subpoena
By Glynn Wilson – So we ran former White House strategist Steve Bannon out of Alabama last year when he came to town to try and help the radical, right-wing conservative Republican former judge and alleged teen sexual molester Roy Moore in his race against Birmingham attorney and Democrat Doug Jones for the U.S. Senate.…
New NASA Space Sensors to Address Key Earth Science Questions
By Glynn Wilson – Why is the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the planet? Does mineral dust warm or cool the atmosphere? These are actual questions just out from NASA about an ongoing research program. While the Trump administration has banished the use of the term climate change or global warming from the…
Democrats Qualify in Statewide Races Hoping for a ‘Blue Wave’ in 2018 Midterm Elections
By Glynn Wilson – When Birmingham attorney Doug Jones tossed his hat into the ring as a Democrat to run for the United States Senate last year and ended up beating the radical, right-wing conservative Republican former judge and alleged teen sexual molester Roy Moore in December, Democrats all over the state and country saw…
Floating on Polluted Waters in a Sinking Ship
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — We are floating on polluted waters in a sinking ship. We might as well look at the U.S.S. United States of America as The Titanic. Remember, it was the ship that was not supposed to sink. When it became obvious that it hit an iceberg and was going…
The Next Big Fight in Congress: Entitlement Reform?
By Robert Reich – Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit they’ve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. As House Speaker Paul Ryan says “We’re going to have to get… at entitlement reform, which is how you…
