Tag Archive for Alabama

Ending the Military Widows Tax is the Right Thing to Do

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Guest Column – By Senator Doug Jones – As Americans, we all appreciate and support our troops and their families. Right? Of course we do. We fly the flag, hold parades in their honor, and praise these brave Americans – and their spouses and children – for their sacrifices on our behalf. We commit to…

Study Ranks Alabama Among the Most Angry, Hateful States in the Country

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By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — When Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate here Wednesday night and mentioned “Alabama values,” it made me stop to ponder what he was talking about. Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne Announces Run for U.S. Senate Against Democrat Doug Jones In his extemporaneous speech at…

U.S. Senate Votes Fail to End Trump Government Shutdown

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By Glynn Wilson – The United States Senate took up two bills on Thursday to try to bring an end to the federal government shutdown orchestrated by President Donald J. Trump nearly six weeks ago on Dec. 22. On day 34 of the shutdown, the Democrats needed 12 Republicans to join them to get the…

Pouring Syrup on the News Doesn’t Make it More or Less True

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But just maybe it could get more people to swallow the medicine – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  ALABAMA – What do you get when you crush sugar cane and boil the juice? Molasses, of course. The thick, brown syrup still used in the American South for baking pies, cookies and other…

Can We Please Stop Refighting the Civil War?

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The Unites States of America Won: The Confederates Lost – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So it appears we will end this trip about where we started it, talking about the damn Civil War, one more freaking time. Historians say history runs in cycles and often repeats itself. I…

Senator Doug Jones of Alabama: A Beacon in a Dark Place

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A fragile nation, beacon to the world, is on the verge of cracking like a giant arctic ice sheet splitting in half due to warming seas. Meanwhile the lack of informed political leadership in America keeps us distracted by the high school beer drinking…

Watercress Darter Habitat Restoration Project Underway on Village Creek

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By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It only took 10 years after the human-caused environmental disaster, but a habitat restoration project for the endangered watercress darter along Village Creek in Roebuck Springs is finally underway and should be completed by the summer of 2018, according to an announcement just out from the non-profit Freshwater…

Buck’s Pocket State Park Campground Could Reopen in the Fall

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By Glynn Wilson – GROVE OAK, Ala. — Jamie Godwin began telling me her story at a party by a campfire on a bluff looking out over Shoal Creek in St. Florian, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals. She is inspired in part by the story of a native American medicine woman named Teh-la-nay, who once walked…

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey’s Ode to George Wallace

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Editor’s Note: Monday, April 23 was celebrated in Alabama as Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday that some say should be removed from the official calendar much like the Confederate Battle Flag was removed from state capitol buildings. The controversy over removing Confederate monuments which sparked protests in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia has now…

Spring Bird Migration on the Gulf Coast in Full Swing

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By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — The spring bird migration is in full swing along the Gulf Coast, an annual event when thousands of species of birds make their annual trans-Gulf flight from South and Central America back to North America for the summer and hundreds of birders make it here for one…