Health Care

Farm Bill Conference Report Passes Muster in U.S. Senate: Expected to Pass the House and Move to the President’s Desk by Week’s End

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Final Farm Bill includes support for farmers, ranchers and communities on rural health, wastewater infrastructure and high-speed internet – By Glynn Wilson – It appears the lame duck Congress will pass a farm bill to place on the president’s desk by the end of the week, according to breaking news on Tuesday out of Washington,…

Senator Doug Jones Urges People in Alabama to Keep the Movement Going

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By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — His history changing campaign for the United States Senate was a state and national “turning point” and a “watershed,” Senator Doug Jones said to a packed house of supporters on Southside Sunday who came out to celebrate his victory with hot dogs, barbecue and beer. “We were on…

Protest Trump’s Budget Or Face the Ultimate Disaster

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Trump Declares All Out War on the Poor, the Environment, the World –   By Glynn Wilson – The hour grows late. The situation dire and dark. The proposed fiscal 2019 federal budget unveiled Monday by President Donald J. Trump, which is certain to draw criticism and debate in Congress and massive acts of resistance…

Gutting the EPA Confirms Trump’s Damning ‘Alabamafication’ of America

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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…

Alabama Senator Doug Jones Advises President Trump on State of the Union

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By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones, the new Democrat in Washington from Alabama, was asked to appear on “CBS This Morning” to comment on President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, scheduled for Tuesday night. While many Democrats are planning on participating in “not watch” parties, and some Democrats are boycotting…

John Lewis Urges People to Vote for Doug Jones in Senate Race

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By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It felt like history was being made to many in the audience Friday night when Georgia Congressman John Lewis joined Doug Jones on the campaign trail and urged people to exercise their hard fought right to vote. When I asked Levon Manzie, a member of the Mobile City…

The State of Government and Democracy in Trump’s America

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By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — If President Donald J. Trump was actually as smart as he likes to say he is and actually had a plan to make America great, he would have shut down his Twitter account on Inauguration Day and ordered his cabinet to come up with real plans to address…

Republicans Fail to Repeal Obamacare: Where Do We Go From Here

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of Americans desperately clinging to some form of health care coverage can breath a sigh of relief Friday morning as the anti-government Republicans in charge of the United States Senate, at the behest of an unhinged president, failed to put together enough votes to abolish the Affordable…

Senate Democrats Join Protesters in Rally to Save American Health Care

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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…