Tag Archive for COVID-19

Foreclosure Moratorium and Mortgage Forbearance Deadline Extended

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Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…

Hellscape 2020: Year In Review in Words and Pictures

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By Glynn Wilson – EDITOR’S NOTE – You may not see much of this in the mainstream media’s year in review stories, which quite frankly so far have made me gag, literally. And want to gouge out my own eyes like a scene from King Lear. Maybe jump out a third story window. Never fear.…

The Night Before Christmas 2020

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By Glynn Wilson – ‘Twas the night before Christmas 2020, when all through the American house The only creatures stirring were nurses trying to save people from dying of COVID. The stockings were hung on the mantle with care, In hopes of a big shipment of vaccine and a relief check from Santa. The children…

With the Election All But Over, the Coronavirus Rages Out of Control

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As we broke camp on Sunday feeling victorious about the declaration of Joe Biden as president-elect and drove south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway into the city, my mind began to wander back to the biggest story of them all, the raging coronavirus. While the Trump administration’s total failure…

Trump Tests Positive: Fake News or Karma?

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By Glynn Wilson – Editor-in-Chief – For the past seven months, responsible Americans have endured the psychologically trying times created by the rampaging coronavirus pandemic, by staying at home as much as possible, abiding by the social distancing guidelines recommended by medical experts, staying at least six feet apart from other people, wearing masks when…

Betsy DeVos Has No Plan for Safely Reopening Schools

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By Robert Reich – Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos is heading the administration’s effort to force schools to reopen in the fall for in-person instruction. What’s her plan to reopen safely? She doesn’t have one. Rather than seeking additional federal funds, she’s using this pandemic to further her ploy to privatize education — threatening to…

What America Needs is Another Seabiscuit

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  What America needs is another Seabiscuit. What lifted the United States out of the Great Depression in the late 1930s? Was it government spending on the Civilian Conservation Corps that hired out of work laborers to build the national parks and other government programs? Was it a…

When Life Becomes A Rerun With An Applause, Laugh Track

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  It’s not clear whether the predominant view of the universe is that life imitates art, or if more people think art imitates life. There’s not been a Gallup poll on that, far as I know. Chances are it’s both anyway. But for the sake of argument on…

While Trump Rushes to Reopen America, Covid-19 is Closing in on Him

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By Robert Reich – Donald Trump said last Thursday’s jobs report, which showed an uptick in June, proves the economy is “roaring back”. Rubbish. The Labor Department gathered the data during the week of June 12, when America was reporting 25,000 new cases of Covid-19 per day. By the time the report was issued last…

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…

Let’s Get Busy Living Better Together

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Even While Social Distancing Apart“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.” – Buddhist Proverb The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. — The polar vortex swooped down into the Southland this Mother’s Day weekend and not only froze the…