By Art Inverness – Staff Writer – COULTERVILLE, Calif. — In the American West, water has long been scarce. What’s new is the price. Across California, Arizona, Nevada and beyond, a collision of drought, climate change and aging infrastructure is driving water bills sharply upward — pushing some of the region’s most vulnerable residents, particularly…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – So in the interest of being “honest” and “unmerciful” as a writer – the sage advice to a young rock journalist from Philip Seymour Hoffman as Cream magazine editor Lester Bangs in the film “Almost Famous” – let me just say here…
Staff Report – EUGENE, Ore.— About 120 current and former wildland firefighters issued an open letter Tuesday calling on members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in National Forests. The rollback of the “Roadless Rule” would remove protections across 45 million acres of national forestlands, opening…
A New Gold Rush Could Be Coming to California – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – In creating my own version of literary journalism on the web over the past 20 years, as regular readers know I’ve often turned to Mark Twain and other American writers for inspiration.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot are turning over in their graves as Donald Trump launches a devastating war against the conservation movement at the same time he sent the U.S. military to attack Iran. “With the subtlety of a wrecking ball and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Are we losing not just our attention spans but the ability to think deeply at all just in time for machines to take over? Is it time for millions of us to die in war because the machine economy will not support us? These…
By Katie DeBenedetti For KQED Elon Musk has been found liable for attempting to drive down Twitter’s stock price ahead of his $44 billion takeover of the company four years ago, a federal jury in San Francisco decided Friday. Attorneys said the world’s wealthiest person will owe an estimated $2.1 billion in damages to former…
By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama guitar slinger Wayne Perkins, who’s playing in the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll inspired Southern Rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and influenced British Rock bands like The Rolling Stones, and whose lead guitar licks helped make Bob Marley’s Reggae music internationally famous, died on Monday…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – “I just want to be free … free of all the hurt … all the pain … end those lonely hours … those lonely days, yeah, yeah…” Someone could definitely write those lyrics now and I could relate, as I’m sure many…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As Apple turns 50, I can’t help but think back on the turning point for the company when Steve Jobs came back in 1997, the year I turned 40. I will never forget the ad credited with bringing the company back, complete…
“I believe there exists… an instinct for truth … & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.” – Charles Darwin to J. S. Henslow, April 1, 1848 The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Could there be any…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – The war for democracy is over. Trump’s authoritarianism won. So many Democrats were so worried about another Civil War that they refused to engage in the fight. Now what are the rest of us supposed to do? I know, you don’t believe…
As Well as Theft of Text and Data to Train Artificial Intelligence Bots – Sundar Pichai Alphabet-Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 To whom it may concern: Now that a federal judge has ruled you guilty of engaging in monopolistic corporate practices in regards to search and online advertising, we wonder if you…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – One of the main reasons I fled Washington, D.C. last year and traveled to California in the first place was a determination to stop spending so much time paying attention to partisan politics and issues that never seemed to change for the…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Ted Roosevelt IV doesn’t like to put words in his great-grandfather’s mouth. But according to a letter signed by himself and three other decedents of the former Republican president, he’s pretty sure that President Theodore Roosevelt would have been “appalled” by an effort by House Republicans to allow…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Before you dismiss what I’m about to say due to the headline on Facebook, and before I get off into the full story of what happened to me, let me just show you up front an excerpt from one scientific-health journal article.…
A Review of Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ Editor’s Note: This column first ran in The Locust Fork News-Journal on October 17, 2009. It also ran on the Alternet website in San Francisco at the time, as well as other news sites and blogs in those days. The subject recently came up in conversation…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Man, this is all we need. A new right-wing sensational tabloid newspaper and news website (no paywall) owned by Rupert Murdoch in California. According to reporting from The New York Times on Thursday, the California Post just launched from Los Angeles, with…
Editor’s Note: We don’t review that many movies here, only the ones we think hold historical and/or literary significance. This week, we found two interesting movies on streaming services to talk about, “Papa: Hemingway in Cuba” and “This Property Is Condemned,” starring Robert Redford and Natalie Wood. Movie Night – By Glynn Wilson – Maybe…
Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Why do some people, even many experts, fear the coming Artificial Intelligence Revolution? While some people, even some whose professions are at risk, seem ho hum about it? For eons of time, but mainly in the past 250 years, humans invented new…
