The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – YOSEMITE, Calif. – Moses. Jesus. Martin Luther King. The Beatles. Ten Years After. How many warnings does it take? How many have to die? Consider this a radio script with music. It was the Hippie Era when the concept first came to my attention that the world…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A record high percentage the people of the United States, 89 percent, now say government corruption is widespread, a number that is up 10 percentage points from 2025 and well above readings in the 72 to 79 percent range researchers found in surveys between 2010 and 2025.…
Staff Report – Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Democrat, is leading Republican businessman Steve Hilton by a double-digit margin in the race for governor of California, according to a new poll from UC Berkeley. The Institute of Governmental Studies poll found about 55% of likely voters saying they’ll support Becerra, 37%…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – As I sit here in the coolness and fog while the rest of the world burns, looking out at what’s happening “out there” through a big computer screen, I see that my old friend Doug Jones is working hard to make inroads with…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – When I tell you that funding a new kind of media is critical if there is to be a future for American democracy, I am not making this up. We are at a critical point in the development of this new brand of non-profit…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, only 33 percent of adults in the United States say they are “extremely proud” to be an American, the lowest reading in Gallup’s polling history. Only 20 percent say they are “very proud,” according to the latest poll on…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – On May 14, 1903, 126 years ago this month, a Republican President was at a banquet in his honor in San Francisco, California. But instead of going along with the official schedule with all the well dressed dignitaries, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt – one of…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot are turning over in their graves as Donald Trump launches a devastating war against the conservation movement at the same time he sent the U.S. military to attack Iran. “With the subtlety of a wrecking ball and…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Ted Roosevelt IV doesn’t like to put words in his great-grandfather’s mouth. But according to a letter signed by himself and three other decedents of the former Republican president, he’s pretty sure that President Theodore Roosevelt would have been “appalled” by an effort by House Republicans to allow…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Majorities of Americans continue to support charitable causes, according to a recent Gallup Poll, although not so much religious groups. More than three-quarters of American adults surveyed, 76 percent, report that they gave money to a nonprofit organization in the past year, and 63 percent said they…
Multiple Intersections Blocked for Hours – Another Black Eye for Google – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Nothing says Silicon Valley like Google’s Waymo robotaxis, the newest, greatest form of transportation invented since the electric streetcar in 1892, the year my grandmother was born. It served…
By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As international travel and tourism has dropped significantly in the United States over the past year due to Trump administration trade and other unpopular policies, the administration just announced a major hike in fees for foreign travelers at America’s most visited National Parks that could cause another economic…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As more than half the people in America continue to watch in shock and horror on 24-hour cable television news and the web as the mad king dictator-in-chief dismantles the White House East Wing for a gold-laced ballroom and unravels democracy as we know…
Guest Column – By U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland – Starting today, Donald Trump and Republicans planned to intentionally withhold food and nutrition assistance (SNAP benefits) from over 42 million Americans, including 16 million children. In Maryland, that translates into 680,000 people, including nearly 270,000 children, 120,000 seniors, and 130,000 individuals with disabilities.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – If I was on the radio, I’m not yet, I might play a song this morning by Waylon Jennings, “It’s The World’s Gone Crazy.” If I was still covering daily news and politics in Washington, D.C., I’m not, this is the news for today.…
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…
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle.” – Since 1865, that’s been the country’s promise, and the motto of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. By Glynn Wilson – DENVER, Co. – About 60 percent of U.S. military veterans say they supported Donald Trump for president in 2024. But many now say…
By Glynn Wilson – ST. LOUIS, Mo. – When pulling up the canopy stakes in the Washington, D.C. metro area on Monday worried about the militarized occupation in the nation’s capital and heading across the Midwest as fast as possible to a political meeting here Wednesday night, nothing really prepared me for the scene where…
By Ronald Sitton – Trumann Observer – BROOKLAND, Ark. — When Alan Brown got into farming his wife’s family’s land in Trumann four years ago after leaving the Air Force, he couldn’t have foreseen the day when the money he’d earn wouldn’t cover the cost of putting the crops in the ground, let alone the…
The move would endanger the health of workers and military personnel – By Cristina Johnson and Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the administration of President Joe Biden had moved to finally ban all use of the deadly carcinogen asbestos in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is reconsidering…
