Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – From the Golden Gate Bridge crossing San Francisco Bay to Apple’s iconic round “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino near San Jose, there lies an ideal place in the universe that embodies the American Dream in the 21st century. Driving north from San…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Ca. – The Trump administration embraced the government shutdown on Wednesday and a senior White House official said there are no plans to negotiate with Democratic leadership in the House and Senate to get it back open again. “We’re going to extract maximum pain,” said the official, speaking anonymously to…
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…
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…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration recently announced another $188 million in new spending to protect and preserve private forestland through the U.S. Forest Service, a move that will help prevent the loss of forests that help prevent more severe climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some people say you shouldn’t talk about politics at family gatherings on holidays like Thanksgiving, as incendiary as that can be these days. But as power is shifting in the nation’s capital city and the Capitol building, and with juicy political plums to be plucked after Christmas, you…
By Lydia DePillis – ProPublica – Late last summer, after churning along through the pandemic with only a two-week pause, managers at FreightCar America called hundreds of workers into the break area at the company’s factory near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to tell them that the plant was closing for good. For some employees, the news…
By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel – ProPublica – In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no…
Guest Column – By Robert Reich – Income and wealth are now more concentrated at the top than at any time over the last 80 years, and our unjust tax system is a big reason why. The tax code is rigged for the rich, enabling a handful of wealthy individuals to exert undue influence over…
By Glynn Wilson – Nanci Pelosi’s House approved the amended Senate version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan on Wednesday by a vote of 220 to 211, sending the historic anti-poverty legislation to the president for his signature. It could be signed and become law by the weekend, with $1,400 coronavirus pandemic…
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three part series on the death of the American Dream and the one last chance we have to save it. Part II: The Early Days of the Internet – What Went Wrong Part III: Government Regulations and Objective Journalism Redefined Part I: Death of an Empire –…
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…
By Glynn Wilson – This might be a good time for Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to sit down for lunch with President Donald J. Trump at the White House, or maybe play a round of golf with him, to explain how tariffs actually work and brief him on the history of how trade…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 20 of the Trump federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat from Alabama, held a media conference call with reporters on Thursday to provide an update on what’s going on in Congress and Washington to end the shutdown and other national legislative issues, including the latest on…
Doug Jones joins bipartisan group of Senators standing up to Trump tariffs on aluminum and steel – Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – Trump’s Twitter Trade policies are already costing jobs and plant closures in the…
By Robert Reich – Why did working class voters choose a selfish, thin-skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful, megalomaniac for president? With the 2018 midterms around the corner, and prospective Democratic candidates already eyeing the 2020 race, the answer is important because it will influence how Democrats campaign. One explanation focuses on economic hardship. The working…
ANALYSIS By Glynn Wilson – President Trump needs a new slogan. Instead of declaring that he wants to “make America great again,” if he was an honest man he would say instead: “Let’s make America more like Alabama.” That’s what’s going on as his administration guts the Environmental Protection Agency. If it was possible to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Activists held a rally outside the Capitol on Tuesday to try to save the American health care system with chants of “kill the bill” as Republican senators inside held a procedural vote to debate the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which would leave millions of people, including…
Even Members of Congress and Trump Voters and Fans Who Visit Washington – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When New York celebrity businessman Donald J. Trump took office in January, one of his first acts as president was to immediately sign a symbolic memo calling for a “hiring freeze” on federal employees. The…
By Glynn Wilson – While the House Republicans were celebrating in the White House Rose Garden after the vote to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare on Thursday, it would have been interesting to be a fly on a bush. Did any of them even whisper a hint about the massive voter backlash that was already exploding…
