The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if it were not embarrassing enough to hang around in the nation’s capital and admit to people that you are originally from Alabama, this bad football coach joke of a United States Senator Tommy Tuberville is running a one man filibuster against the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Here’s a life hack for you. If you can’t find anything worth watching at night on cable, Netflix or any of the other streaming services, try going to bed early and sleeping on your left side. You might find that your crazy dreams are…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — James Rhodes of Coulterville, California can attest to how hot it was in June, even at 1800 feet above sea level in the shadow of Yosemite National Park and only a three hour drive from San Francisco. “It’s been really hot,” he said, with one wildfire in the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – I must admit that I was not watching when No. 1 Alabama beat No. 22 Auburn on Saturday in the not the Iron Bowl game anymore. But it was impossible not to find out about it on Facebook, where some of my friends still make a big…
By Glynn Wilson – Just when you thought the Democrats were trending up, up and away from the Republicans in the polls in election 2020, just two months away, and the pundits were downplaying the concept of a party convention bounce in the era of the novel coronavirus and the virtual convention, low and behold…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones will host a forum on environmental justice and community development in the Black Belt at Wallace Community College in Selma, Alabama on Monday, Nov. 25 at 12 noon in coordination with the League of Conservation Voters and The Nature Conservancy. Senator Jones, the Democrat from Birmingham, will moderate a panel of…
Connecting the Dots By Glynn Wilson William Wilberforce, the British politician and philanthropist who is credited with ending the slave trade in Great Britain, spent his entire adult life dedicated to “creating a better world,” according to his biographies and the movie Amazing Grace. So his story is important to know for anyone with similar…
Historically Black Town Fights Toxic Waste – By D. Amari Jackson – In the spring of 1860, a year before the Civil War, a wealthy Alabama shipbuilder and plantation owner named Timothy Meaher chose to toy with the escalating tensions between North and South by making a despicable wager. Despite strict laws forbidding the import…
By Robert Reich – Donald Trump’s warning that he might not accept the results of the presidential election exemplifies his approach to everything: Do whatever it takes to win, even if that means undermining the integrity of the entire system. Trump isn’t alone. The same approach underlies Senator John McCain’s recent warning that Senate Republicans…
By Glynn Wilson – Powerful Hurricane Matthew made landfall on the southwestern tip of Haiti near 7 a.m. October 4 as a Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds, and was on track to hit Florida and head for North Carlonia on Tuesday. The hurricane is the third strongest one ever recorded in the impoverished…
By Glynn Wilson – As Americans party by the water, gorge on barbecue and take in the fireworks shows on the Fourth of July 2016, space scientists from Florida to California will be consuming coffee and staring at computer screens waiting to see if the Juno probe will successfully enter the volotile atmosphere of Jupiter.…
A tropical depression forming in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekened has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Colin by the National Hurricane Center, and the National Weather Service has issued a tropical storm warning for Florida’s Gulf Coast. Expected to hit the coast by Monday afternoon, Colin’s outer bands are already drenching parts of…
This Earth Day, April 22, NASA is inviting people around the world to share what they are doing to celebrate and improve the home planet on social media, while the space agency shares aspects of a “day in the life” of NASA’s Earth science research. The Earth Day #24Seven campaign will give the world a…
By Jeffrey M. Jones – At the outset of the 2016 campaign for president of the United States, the potential Republican candidates identified so far lack the star power of previous campaigns, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject. The Republican nomination contest is shaping up to be a lot like 2012, with…
Glynn R. Wilson, Web Publisher, Editor, Writer, Reporter, Photographer, Videographer, Public Opinion expert E-mail: fast2write@gmail.com Phone: 205.960.3639 JOURNALISM, PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE Glynn Wilson has been a newspaper reporter and photographer and magazine writer for more than 35 years. He spent a decade as a college professor and academic researcher and has been a web publisher for…
By Glynn Wilson – Mercedes was found guilty this week of violating labor law against employees by an administrative law judge ruling for the National Labor Relations board. Judge Keltner W. Locke ruled that Mercedes-Benz U.S. International in Vance near Tuscaloosa committed three violations in dealing with employees who were working to try to unionize…
