Tag Archive for Alabama

The Tragedy of North Birmingham, Alabama

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By Max Blau – Graphics by Shane Loeffler – ProPublica By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which heat coal to produce a fuel called coke — had broken off and tumbled to…

Majority of U.S. Voters Say the Next President Should Pick New Supreme Court Justice to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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By Glynn Wilson – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the political fight over her replacement could jolt the presidential race and the competitive battle for control of the United States Senate just six weeks before the election, prompting survey research company the Morning Consult Poll to question whether Democratic or…

Senators React to Supreme Court Power Play by Trump and McConnell

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By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama and other Senators returned to Washington this week to face a power play by President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the Supreme Court seat left open by last week’s death of popular liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87. “I’m saddened…

Letter to the Editor: Get Involved to Fight Climate Change

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Letter to the Editor MOBILE, Ala. — We dodged a bullet from Hurricane Laura. Hurricane Sally is headed this way, expected to be a Category 2 Hurricane when it makes landfall on Tuesday. Once again, we will be on the wet side. Meteorologists are predicting catastrophic and life-threatening rain and resultant flooding. Is this the…

President Trump Makes No Secret of Conspiracy to Gut Mail Voting: Senators Urge USPS to Fix Delays and Avoid Cost Increases Ahead of November Election

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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,…

America Torn Asunder: 100,000 Dead, 40 Million Unemployed

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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…

From the Sock Capital of the World to God’s Country

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By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — For nearly half a century, Dekalb County in the mountainous northeastern region of Alabama along the Georgia line really was the sock capital of the world. It wasn’t just a slogan like some places have, where the chamber of commerce makes something up and struggles to make…