By Glynn Wilson – If you care about democracy and the planet, you should be singing “Hallelujah” on Sunday night as a historic package of bills addressing the climate and energy emergency passed in the United States Senate on Sunday by a vote of 51-50, legislation that will also reduce the price of prescription drugs…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For some reason I had a little trouble falling sound asleep on Saturday night. So after watching a couple of shows on Netflix, dozing off a few times and waking back up, I went outside for a few minutes for some fresh air between 1 and 2…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – For half a century, two Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, protected the liberty and equality of women in the United States of America. Roe held, and Casey reaffirmed, that the Constitution safeguards a woman’s right to decide for…
Staff Report – Donald Trump’s attempt to hold onto power even though he knew he lost the 2020 election was described as “a coup in search of a legal theory,” according a conclusion drawn by Adam Schiff of California, who led the questioning of witnesses Tuesday in the fourth gripping hearing of the Select House…
By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Irena Hwang, ProPublica – Photography by Kristyna Wentz-Graff, Oregon Public Broadcasting – CARSON, Wash. — The fish were on their way to be executed. One minute, they were swimming around a concrete pond. The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline.…
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everyone, it seems, is up in arms about Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter. With the possible exception of all those stockholders who are about to make a fortune when he has to buy them out to take the company private. And there’s the…
By Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg – ProPublica – By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer’s office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets. After swearing to tell nothing but the truth so help him God, he recounted that he…
Full text of “John Brown. An address by Frederick Douglass, at the fourteenth anniversary of Storer College, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881”: source text edited from print style to web press style JOHN BROWN: AN ADDRESS FREDERICK DOUGLASS, FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY, STORER COLLEGE, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, May 30, 1881. DOVER, N. H.: MORNING…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – If ever there lived a scientist who came closest to figuring out the essence of human nature and what we need to do to survive on planet Earth, it was Edward Osborne Wilson from Birmingham, Alabama, who reached the zenith of the biological sciences at Harvard and provided…
By Abrahm Lustgarten – ProPublica – On a 110-degree day several years ago, surrounded by piles of sand and rock in the desert outside of Las Vegas, I stepped into a yellow cage large enough to fit three standing adults and was lowered 600 feet through a black hole into the ground. There, at the…
Originally published July 31, 2005, as an introduction to our web publishing ventures in The Locust Fork News-Journal. Editor’s Note: Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson usually writes a weekly column on Sunday. By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – LOCUST FORK RIVER, Blount County, Ala., July 30 – “I am haunted by waters,” author…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Back in the 1980s, into the 1990s and as recently as this year, scientists, science writers and environmental activists warned people and governments that human industrial activity fueled a catastrophic greenhouse effect that was warming the planet and changing the climate. The United Nations led the early warning…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes epiphanies come in dreams. I had another one of those this morning as my brain was trying to coax my body into waking up. Not that I haven’t realized this before, and defied the knowledge. The scene was set in New Orleans, and…
By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel – ProPublica – In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a continuing series of executive actions to reverse damaging anti-environment policies of the Trump administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service under President Joe Biden announced new plans this week to re-strengthen the Endangered Species Act, the law and a series…
By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — How do you tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly? Don’t try this at home or in a national park. Sneak up on the bear and kick it in the rump, then run and climb a tree. If the bear climbs up the…
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…
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The east-facing window in this humble abode was enshrouded in fog the first thing Sunday morning, not the famous smoke you sometimes see in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Since it’s National Public Sleeping Day and the weather was not conducive to…
By Glynn Wilson – It’s now been three weeks since the violent insurrection and attempted coup on the part of the Trump cabal to upend the peaceful transition of power in America and halt Congress on Jan. 6 from certifying the Electoral College votes for the clear winner of the election, President Joe Biden. This…
