The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ala. — Are you getting your affairs in order? I know I am. If this is not the end of the world as we know it, I don’t know what else that could go wrong to make it so. Yellowstone could blow and we would…
“My country when she is right.’ Because patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It had been awhile since I entered the hallowed corridors of Bryant-Denny Stadium, one of the premier cathedrals…
The Big Picture -Â By Glynn Wilson – The scariest thing about this Halloween is that Donald Trump is still president. The good news on Thursday is that the Washington Nationals stunned the betting favorite Houston Astros in game seven of the World Series Wednesday night, bringing home a maiden national championship to the nation’s…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What if it could possibly be true that we have more in common than we think, and the partisan divide in America is a man made wedge fed by corrupt politicians on both sides and a media that thrives on “conflict” as a so-called news value? Not…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. — They say if you listen close enough at night by the creeks in these parts, you can still hear the cries of some of the ghosts of the 51,000 soldiers who bled and died here in the effort to save or break up the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of Senators are indicating they will attempt to step into the policy vacuum on the southern border, where current policy has fueled a humanitarian crisis, with a program called “Operation Safe Return.” U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, announced the decision publicly by…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lurking on a wooded little island in the Potomac River just across the water from Georgetown, there lie important lessons for progressive Democrats from the most progressive president in American history. In continuing our exploration of the U.S. capital region, not just the partisan politics,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOUNT MITCHELL, N.C. — Literary history is filled with stories about motivated people climbing up mountains for inspiration. Moses supposedly hiked up Mount Sinai and came back with the Ten Commandments. George Mallory told the New York Times in 1923 that he climbed Mount Everest “because it’s…
By Glynn Wilson – So there’s not one single judge in Etowah County, Alabama, who wants to have anything to do with former judge Roy Moore and his doomed defamation case in Gadsden against women who accused him of sexual impropriety last year. According to a document filed in court this week signed by all…
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Nothing gets the people of Alabama fired up like football. It’s even been called the state religion. But in the best piece of journalism ever published on the subject, Rick Bragg debunked that notion a few years back in Sports Illustrated. “They say college football is religion in…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democrats in bars and coffee shops around the nation’s capital and across Alabama are asking each other an implausible question: Is 2017 the year a Democrat might get elected to the U.S. Senate from the conservative state? The 63-year-old former federal prosecutor Doug Jones, who jailed a couple…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg showed up on the Gulf Coast Sunday just in time for Mardi Gras and had people speculating that he may have a political future in mind. Dutifully, all three local television news stations covered the visit like any other celebrity sighting. But due to a…
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – FAIRHOPE, Ala. — The world is changing fast, again. Try to keep up — if you can. Let us help. Let me help. Listen up. About the time NBC was wrapping up it’s…
By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala – “He was his slave.†The man was casually describing the connection between a relative and “an old black man†who worked on an extended-family tract outside the city. They rode around together in the relative’s truck doing chores, he said, and the “slave†was allowed to live in…
By Walter Simon – We seem to be a society living in denial when it comes to a lot of things. It’s as if we are sitting there eating and drinking at a downtown restaurant, lost in the enjoyment of the immediate surroundings, but since our world is obviously become like the Twilight Zone we…
By Carrie Louise Nutt – The America I grew up in is not the America of today. This is always true. Life is constantly changing. The world is constantly changing. Nothing stays the same. It’s one big ball of organic aliveness. But the difference is that the America of today is not an improvement over…
Education Matters — By Larry Lee — Debbie Deavours has spent 33 years in the Fayette County school system, the last eight as principal at Berry Elementary in the little town of Berry with its 1,250 people. Debbie has 300 students in pre-K-6. Some 65 percent of whom get free or reduced price lunches. And…
Education Matters – By Larry Lee – Let’s say that Santa brought you a new chainsaw and in your haste to put it to work you gashed your leg severely. With blood gushing everywhere, do you holler for someone to bring you some band-aids? It’s doubtful. And more likely that after you scream for help,…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — A few years ago, Princeton graduate Charles Scribner with the Black Warrior Riverkeeper in Birmingham saw my coverage of the BlueGreen Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington, D.C. and sent me an e-mail asking an important question: Do you think it would be…
