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…
BREAKING NEWS EXCLUSIVE REPORT – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump is running an authoritarian regime and his threat to orchestrate a federal takeover of the nation’s capital city is as unconstitutional as much of what his administration is doing, according to the head of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin,…
___ If you support truth in reporting with no paywall, and fearless writing with no popup ads or sponsored content, consider making a contribution today with GoFundMe or Patreon or PayPal. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What to do about Donald Trump? Democrats and some Republicans and independents are…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States of America is in big trouble. As preparations were being made in the nation’s capital for the Fourth of July 2025, and the 250th anniversary of the country in 2026, a Gallup poll finds American pride at an all time low.…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – You know it’s the end of an era when a giant passes from the Earth. Bill Moyers, who made it to the Big Time from small town Baptist roots in Texas in the 1950s to the White House in the time of President John…
“We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.” – Washington Post Editor Ben Bradley The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – So after consulting with my doctor on Tuesday about the latest…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration, led by Elon’s Musk’s DOGE team of hackers and aided by complicit Republicans in Congress, is engaged in a war on science like nothing anyone has ever seen in American history. The administration is threatening to cut the federal budget for the National Aeronautics and…
He’s still mad about the Inauguration crowd size photos showing Obama’s crowd much larger – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Still furious with the National Park Service for releasing photos showing his inauguration crowd size to be half the crowd who showed up in 2009 for President Barack Obama’s inauguration, President Donald Trump…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rather than changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, if Trump is allowed to continue transforming this country as he has tried to do in his first 100 days back in the White House, we might as well…
On My Return to Washington One More Time – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. BOUND – This little detour back to the American South for the past six months has been interesting, to say the least, presenting some fascinating opportunities I never envisioned. Covering politics and the disastrous 2024 election…
Can factual reporting diligently investigated and brilliantly written still make a difference? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A new Red Scare threatens American democracy. This time, it’s not a deranged Senator from Wisconsin making all the noise and ruining lives. It’s the president himself, seemingly serving the interests of the new…
ON THE RADIO – APR, NPR – “Bloody Sunday” through the lens of Spider Martin By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As people get ready to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts just…
