From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine – Dear EarthTalk: What is the status of California’s giant sequoias trees and what’s being done to save them from extinction? — M.L., Sacramento, CA Giant sequoias, which can grow upwards of 300 feet tall with circumferences of 90+ feet around at ground level, are among…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing will make us healthier or happier in America when we never have to hear about or talk about Donald Trump ever again. The country and the world would be a much better place if the most corrupt politician in American history would just…
By Alonso Abugattas – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The wild turkey has made an incredible comeback. Not that long ago, wild turkeys were all but wiped out by a combination of overhunting and habitat loss. By the early 1900s, none remained in the District of Columbia and very few remained in the woods of Maryland, Virginia,…
Apparently Not at the Hawk ‘n’ Dove – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government is so dysfunctional here that it might well lead one to seek out strong drink. But where to go? Are bars as divided as members of Congress these days? The government dysfunction is especially…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you like reading news online but hate paywalls and popup ads? There is a solution. But it will take a smart law firm to file the right kind of legal case against Google and Meta to bring it about. It has long been…
By Jennifer Shutt – Maryland Matters – WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. senators voted 87-11 to approve legislation Wednesday that would fund the government into next year, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden’s signature. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution or CR, would fund part of the government until mid-January and the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Massive changes in the climate due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation is deadly and expensive, but some of the most extreme impacts could be prevented if there was the political will to take on the challenges, according to the new…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Next to Donald Trump himself, the guy who belongs high on the list of those who should be behind bars for threatening democracy itself and screwing up the world is Steve Bannon. He helped Trump get elected in the final months of the presidential election in 2016 by…
“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.” – Walter Lippmann The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — What image pops into your head when you see or hear someone say, “That’s cool, man?”…
By Jennifer Shutt – Maryland Matters – ANNAPOLIS, Md. — After years of wrangling between politicians in Virginia and Maryland, it appears the new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters will be built just north of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, according to a statement from the General Services Administration. The Greenbelt site appears to have…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are you better off than you were three years ago? That’s a perennial question that pops up like a weed every four years in Washington politics, or at least the media coverage of it. Think about it. Three years ago, in November 2020, the global Covid-19 pandemic was at…
Public Opinion – National Politics – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wait just a doggone minute. Did The New York Times just bury the lede? In the Sunday Times, a banner headline promoting a public opinion story about the 2024 presidential election proclaimed that President Joe Biden was trailing former President Donald Trump…
By Jennifer Shutt – Maryland Matters – ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Congress will need to pass a second stopgap funding measure before Thanksgiving if lawmakers want to avoid a government shutdown, though pushing off final decisions on full-year spending bills until next year would put lawmakers smack dab in the middle of what’s expected to be…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As if we needed any more evidence to backup our unique name for the so-called “Freedom Caucus,” a new book and review show that a far right movement of MAGA Republicans in the House should be called the “Dixie Caucus,” because the brain trust…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Who is the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson? Let his own words reveal all. “It’s no secret that I am a steadfast Christian and man of God,” Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told supporters in recent fundraising emails. But in…
The Dead on Arrival Bill Included a Partisan Poison Pill to Cut Federal Spending – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a crass attempt to appear to side with Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson brought up a bill which included $14.3 billion…
Staff Report – Freedom of the Press Foundation – An Alabama newspaper publisher and reporter were arrested last week and charged under a grand jury secrecy statute for the “crime” of reporting on a grand jury subpoena provided by a source. The publisher, Sherry Digmon, was arrested again — this time for soliciting ads from…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the largest and most significant corporate pollution settlements in the history of electric power and the law, Potomac Electric Power has agreed to pay more than $57 million to help mitigate contamination of the Anacostia River from its power plants. We just received the press…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans favor stronger gun control laws, opinions that are at odds with the Republicans in Congress, where doing anything about guns is a non-starter in spite of a major spike in deadly mass shootings in the United States over the past few years. According to the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It may be too little too late, or too little too soon, but at least the Biden administration is trying to do something to try keeping people grounded in reality. What are the Christo Fascists in the House doing other than trying to push…
