By Glynn Wilson – A whopping 88 percent of Democrats say the announcement of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s pick for Vice President made them hopeful, and roughly 4 out 5 say it makes them confident, proud, happy or “excited,” according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll just out Thursday night. That’s the share of…
By Glynn Wilson – A group of United States Senators, including Doug Jones of Alabama, is urging President Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to provide answers regarding reports of recent changes to long-standing practices at the U.S. Postal Service, changes that would result in increased delivery times and costs for election mail,…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama blasted President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a statement Saturday night in the wake of the president’s signing of executive orders claiming to extend unemployment benefits, in the absence of action in the Senate to provide a second round of stimulus…
By Glynn Wilson – The deadly, novel coronavirus is still spreading across the land. The number of reported deaths from COVID-19 are still going up. The economy is stalling again, and millions of Americans just exhausted their federally subsidized unemployment benefits. The House is still in session in Washington, D.C. working on a new economic…
U.S. Party Preferences Swing Sharply To Democrats – By Glynn Wilson – Gallup’s latest polling reveals the damage President Donald J. Trump has done to the Republican Party and indicates the presidential and U.S. Senate elections in 2020 are the Democrats to lose with less than four months to go. While Trump seemed to be…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The race for the United States Senate is on now that U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama has an opponent, a former Auburn football coach endorsed by President Donald J. Trump with no experience in politics and government. Related: Alabama Senator Doug Jones Holds the Key to Victory…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. – Not since Richard Nixon sat forlorn with a bottle of whiskey in the West Wing trying to stave off impeachment during the Watergate scandal has a president found himself so isolated, alone, hated and embattled in the White House. Will Donald Trump resort to…
By Glynn Wilson – As the countdown begins in earnest to see what party runs the country for the next four years, setting the agenda for public policy in Washington and leading America beyond the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession, the hidebound red state of Alabama has a chance to play a surprising role in…
By Glynn Wilson – America will be celebrating independence in a few weeks on July 4 and holding an election in a few months on Nov. 3, so this seems like a good time to assess where we are psychologically after three and a half months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and economic recession,…
By Glynn Wilson – For one of the fews times in Donald Trump’s presidency, his job approval rating has fallen below 40 percent, a harbinger of problems ahead in his drive for reelection in November that could make a second term “unlikely,” according to Gallup. Satisfaction with how things are going in the United States…
Instead of Coming Together to Fight for Survival, Our Cities Are Divided and Wracked by Violence- By Glynn Wilson – One hundred thousand Americans are dead due the novel coronavirus, likely spawned in on outhouse full of human DNA and animal waste at or near a wet meat market in Wuhan, China, where animal-to-human transmission…
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.…
States Reopen Some Businesses AnywayBy Glynn Wilson – BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. — As people all over America prepare to celebrate the unofficial beginning of summer on Memorial Day weekend, the federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning members of the military who died while serving in the armed forces to fight…
By Glynn Wilson – While members of the Trump administration continue to send mixed signals to people around the country and the world about the novel coronavirus, the amount of testing going on and its economic impacts, at least one moderate Senator from a very conservative state in the Deep South continues to send the…
Staff report… U.S. Senator Doug Jones urges Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to establish a health care manufacturing task force to explore ways to move the state to the forefront of health care manufacturing in the United States. In a letter to Governor Ivey on Thursday, the Birmingham Democrat suggested utilizing existing infrastructure across the state,…
By Glynn Wilson with Trace Thompson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — One month ago, the president of the United States declared a national emergency because of the coronavirus pandemic, setting off an economic panic. On Easter Weekend, the number of cases and deaths in the U.S. surpassed Italy, with 528,735 confirmed cases and more than…
By Glynn Wilson – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama held a press conference on Thursday at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital with Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Director of UAB’s Division of Infectious Diseases, to share updates about the health care situation in Alabama, the latest on how the CARES Act legislation recently passed by…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Votes to Pass Strengthened Economic Relief Package – By Glynn Wilson – The largest fiscal stimulus bill ever passed by the United States Congress, containing $2.2 trillion intended to flood the country with cash in an effort to stem the debilitating impact on the economy of the coronavirus pandemic, is…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Urges Everyone To Remain At Home – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — Disregard everything posted on social media prior to Monday, March 16. Ignore any postings about a vaccine becoming available in time to deal with the coronavirus COVID-19 global pandemic. Remain at home if at all…
Republican Tommy Tuberville Tops Jeff Sessions, Likely to Win Runoff and Face Senator Doug Jones in November – By Glynn Wilson – PENSACOLA, Fla. — Joe Biden came back from the political dead on Super Tuesday and reemerged as the front runner in the Democratic Party’s primary race to take on President Donald Trump in…
