By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Many members of the public and some politicians may not like public opinion polls, especially after what happened in the presidential election of 2016. But they are still the best snap shots of data we have to go by on how the public is thinking at any given…
Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, published here as an editorial opinion column. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dear Senator Shelby: You and I go way back, when I covered your earliest political campaigns for Alabama newspapers and the wire service UPI. You’ve been around awhile…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in his highly controversial roller coaster ride of a presidency, Donald Trump may be in real trouble. The news about the new impeachment investigation launched by House Democrats has reached the American people, and now a solid majority of 55 percent support the inquiry,…
Climate Change Protests and Impeachment Inquiry Give Us Some Hope — The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Well this is extraordinary. Since I came down from the mountain in the Catoctins, crossed through the nation’s capital and setup camp on the Potomac River in Virginia, the people woke up and…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an extraordinary political turnabout, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made an appearance on national television late Tuesday afternoon and announced that a formal impeachment inquiry would be launched in the House against President Donald J. Trump. What prompted this political change? The Speaker has resisted calls to impeach…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — An estimated four million people around the world walked off the job, skipped school and joined marches and rallies on Friday to protest inadequate government action to address climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels in what youth organizers called a Climate Strike.…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MONTROSS, Va. — An American bald eagle just flew by overhead, going north up the Virginia bank of the Potomac River. Its white crown, yellow beak and brown feathers were unmistakable shining in the early Autumn sun with a powder blue sky as a background filled with…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A three judge panel of federal appeals court judges has overruled a lower court and allowed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to go forward for violations of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by Trump hotels and restaurants for illegally profiting from business with foreign…
The Muddled Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s the 18th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 and I’m still not sure what to say. Some historians say give it 20 years. There’s a pretty good column about the world we lost…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alabama Senator Doug Jones, the Birmingham Democrat, officially kicked off his campaign for reelection on Sunday at the B&A Warehouse in downtown Birmingham, emphasizing a centrists theme of common sense solutions and bringing the people of the state together as “One Alabama.” He came on stage with a…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — If I had the power to change the national debate away from Trump’s distracting tweets, this is what I would have us all talking about. In recent years, with all the climate change related coverage of impacts from global warming, including massive hurricanes and…
By Glynn Wilson – CUNNINGHAM FALLS BY CAMP DAVID, Md. — In an extraordinary revelation set to change the subject of the news away from President Donald Trump’s sharpie scandal over changing the track map for Hurricane Dorian to show a threat to Alabama, the president revealed Saturday that he had been planning a secret…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Americans celebrate Labor Day on the first Monday in September with barbecue, beans and boat rides, this is a good time to reflect on the status of organized labor in the United States in terms of politics and public opinion. This should be a big anniversary for…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you have an interest in the national seat of power in this broken American democracy, as I do, your path will take you here to the nation’s capital. There’s lots to see and do here. If you also have an interest in saving…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the U.S. island of Puerto Rico dodged the worst damaging winds and flooding on the weak side of Hurricane Dorian, hot Atlantic Ocean waters of up to 85 degrees fueled the system from a tropical storm into a deadly category 4 hurricane on Friday and Saturday as…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Monday he is joining a coalition of 20 attorneys general in states across the country in filing a lawsuit opposing the Trump administration’s new proposed rule allowing the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody along the border of Mexico…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the nation’s capital in reprieve this weekend from the summer heat waves, heat domes and thunderstorms pounding in from the southwest, what locals like to think of as a harbinger of fall, turning away from the news it might be easy to forget…
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s hot as hell could be inside the Beltway again, with a projected high on Sunday of 96 degrees and a low of only 75 tonight, a harbinger of the future for cities along the Eastern Seaboard. As I hit the button to publish this…
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 22 states and 7 local governments announced a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday over the Trump administration’s proposed new Affordable Clean Energy rule, which rolls back decades of regulations aimed at cleaning up air pollution from coal-fired power plants and virtually erases progress by the Obama administration’s…
