Staff Report – It’s that time of year again when the weather begins to grow hotter and the hurricanes start forming off the west coast of Africa and swirling across the Atlantic Ocean toward the United States. And yes, the planet is still growing hotter due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
The massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, highlights disparities in how federal laws regulate rifles and handguns. The shooter bought two rifles days after his 18th birthday. By Kiah Collier and Jeremy Schwartz – ProPublica and The Texas Tribune – Co-published with ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. The fact that the gunman responsible…
By Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Irena Hwang, ProPublica – Photography by Kristyna Wentz-Graff, Oregon Public Broadcasting – CARSON, Wash. — The fish were on their way to be executed. One minute, they were swimming around a concrete pond. The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline.…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Maryland man who was among the youngest charged with participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison. Matthew Ryan Miller, 23, of Cooksville, Maryland, was sentenced in the District of Columbia for assaulting law enforcement officers and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – APPALACHIA – People are packing up their tents and RVs in the campground on Sunday to head back home or on down the road, and over coffee here in the woods, I can’t stop thinking about all the ways Americans are on the move these days. Paying…
The latest public opinion on gun control, white nationalism and the future of democracy – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – Here’s a novel theory: What if people at least tried to be nicer? Boring, I know. And of course it won’t work, because so many people are, let’s face it, basically dumbasses…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – Sometimes, when sitting outside in the Appalachian Mountains in the shade thinking about what to write about on Sundays, I wonder how to go about writing splendid, pretty sentences. Perhaps the key is writing about pretty things, not bad news. I don’t know. I’ve even Googled it, and…
By Glynn Wilson – With only six months to go before the midterm elections on November 8, Republicans are still more enthusiastic to vote than Democrats, although the party in power is gaining some ground thanks to a recent leak of a draft ruling on abortion out of the United States Supreme Court. The share…
By Glynn Wilson – As carbon emissions rise and the planet continues its warming trend, climate change and energy are increasingly on the public’s mind, according to public opinion surveys from Morning Consult. For good reason, according to the latest data. There is a 50-50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°…
The First Amendment Guarantee of ‘Free Speech’ Only Applies to Government Censorship, Not Moderation by Private Social Media Companies – By Glynn Wilson – In an important ruling that should make it clear to the American people why the Constitutional right of free speech does not apply to private companies, including social media platforms like…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. — On this rainy day in Maryland when I won’t be traveling to Churchill Downs, donning a sear sucker suit or even watching the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby on television — or drinking mint juleps with Mitch McConnell for that matter —…
Escape Global Warming and Climate Change in Summer – Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The New York Times magazine recently assigned a woman who had never been camping in her life to travel around in a camper van and write about the experience. The trip was a disaster, and the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was a period in American politics when being openly racist and a German Nazi fascist sympathizer would have automatically disqualified a candidate from being elected to any office in the United States. Some political scientists and historians might give some of the credit…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Trump supporter from Missouri and an admitted member of the right-wing domestic terrorist group the Proud Boys pleaded guilty this week in federal court to a felony charge for obstructing police during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions disrupted a joint session…
We can’t plant enough trees to stop run amok deforestation – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As if the world needed another reason to be down on Russia, the widespread wildfires that raged across Russia in 2021, burning vast swaths of forest and sending smoke as far as the North Pole, unleashed massive…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Everyone, it seems, is up in arms about Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter. With the possible exception of all those stockholders who are about to make a fortune when he has to buy them out to take the company private. And there’s the…
By Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg – ProPublica – By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer’s office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets. After swearing to tell nothing but the truth so help him God, he recounted that he…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Too see how the cause of Ukraine has captured the attention of the American people, check out the latest Gallup poll on the subject, which found that 78 percent say they approve of “allowing up to 100,000” Ukrainian refugees into the United States. The poll was based on a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marjorie Taylor Greene. That’s all you have to say on Facebook to get Democrats fired up to hit like and comment. There must be a political lesson in here somewhere. Democrats appear burned out on politics in general and say they are tired of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people all over the world came out on April 22, 1970 to celebrate the first Earth Day, and the era of environmental activism was launched. The movement was an evolution from the non-violent activism for civil rights and against the war in…
