Public Affairs - National Politics

Trump’s War on Science Continues: NASA to Face Budget Cuts of Up to 50 Percent

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration, led by Elon’s Musk’s DOGE team of hackers and aided by complicit Republicans in Congress, is engaged in a war on science like nothing anyone has ever seen in American history. The administration is threatening to cut the federal budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in half, canceling leases on buildings and other cuts where critical climate science research is conducted. In the…

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Science - Space - Environment

Trump’s War on Science Continues: NASA to Face Budget Cuts of Up to 50 Percent

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration, led by Elon’s Musk’s DOGE team of hackers and aided by complicit Republicans in Congress, is engaged in a war on science like nothing anyone has ever seen in American history. The administration is threatening to cut the federal budget…

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Trump Threatens to Cut $1 Billion From National Park Service Budget

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He’s still mad about the Inauguration crowd size photos showing Obama’s crowd much larger – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Still furious with the National Park Service for releasing photos showing his inauguration crowd size to be half the crowd who showed up in 2009 for President Barack…

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Opinion - Editorial Columns

A Different Kind of Spring in Washington

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a different kind of spring here in and around the great capital city of the United States. Yes, the Japanese cherry trees blossomed this year by the Jefferson Memorial and around the Tidal Basin, along with…

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One Hundred Days in Trumpville: The People Must Act to Stop This Madness

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rather than changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, if Trump is allowed to continue transforming this country as he has tried to do in his first 100 days back in the White…

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Trump Lies About Speaking at UA Commencement: His Appearance Will Face Protests

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – PELL CITY, Ala. – By the time Donald J. Trump flies into Tuscaloosa on Thursday, May 1 for a private, ticketed event for himself in Coleman Coliseum on the eve of University of Alabama graduation ceremonies beginning on May 2, I will…

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The Sun Sets on Human Possibilities on This 55th Anniversary of Earth Day

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It is a sad time for Planet Earth, maybe the saddest of times since the first Earth Day 55 years ago today. By the 20th anniversary in 1990, after news organizations developed specialty beats to cover “pollution” of the natural environment in…

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Travel

A Different Kind of Spring in Washington

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s a different kind of spring here in and around the great capital city of the United States. Yes, the Japanese cherry trees blossomed this year by the Jefferson Memorial and around the Tidal Basin, along with…

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Camping, Hiking and Boating at Kymulga Grist Mill and Covered Bridge Park

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHILDERSBURG, Ala. – If you find yourself traveling in Alabama looking for a hidden place to camp that is not too crowded, maybe on a fast moving stream where you can float in a canoe or kayak with lots of…

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Camping Wisdom: If Liberals Are ‘Libs’ Then Conservatives Are ‘Cons’

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHEROKEE ROCK VILLAGE, Ala. – If the conservative Republicans on Fox News, talk radio and social media are just going to go on and on calling liberal Democrats “libs” and talk endlessly about “sticking it to the libs” while Donald…

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Camping, Hiking and Rock Climbing at Cherokee Rock Village

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – CHEROKEE ROCK VILLAGE, Ala. – Always on the lookout for cool, historic and scenic places to camp these days, on a recent trip scouting new places in Alabama I ran across this gem in Cherokee County not far from Gadsden…

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Media Arts - Music

A New Red Scare Threatens American Democracy From Within the White House

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Can factual reporting diligently investigated and brilliantly written still make a difference? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A new Red Scare threatens American democracy. This time, it’s not a deranged Senator from Wisconsin making all the noise and ruining lives. It’s the president himself, seemingly serving…

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Spider Martin Photography Exhibit Opens on the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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ON THE RADIO – APR, NPR – “Bloody Sunday” through the lens of Spider Martin By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As people get ready to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Montgomery…

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What is This ‘Swampers Sound’ and What Musicians Should be Credited on the List as ‘A Swamper?’

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“Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers And they’ve been known to pick a song or two (yes, they do) Lord, they get me off so much They pick me up when I’m feelin’ blue, now how ’bout you? “Sweet home Alabama (oh) Where the skies are so blue Sweet…

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Wayne Perkins: The Story of a Swamper And a Sideman

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There for the Birth of Southern Rock, he took the Muscle Shoals swampy sound to London and blended that with the Rasta island beat, creating a new sound that transformed Reggae for mainstream audiences in Europe and America. – A Draft Book Proposal in Progress By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson –…

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