Budget Includes Increases for National Park Service, EPA – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to remember a time when a president’s budget plan was greeted with more enthusiasm than the $5.8 trillion budget proposal issued by the Biden Administration on Monday. The last time this happened was probably 1999, in Bill Clinton’s…
President Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies. By Ilya Marritz ProPublica. Though Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just days old, Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of progressive Democrats inspired by the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2016 is going after a far right Trump supporting candidate for governor of Maryland, Dan Cox, who is now a Republican member of the state House of Delegates and has filed articles of impeachment…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The news is not as huge as an indictment and show trial of former President Donald Trump would be. But the announcement by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that he will retire at the end of this court term and give President Joe Biden a chance to nominate…
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama football coach Nick Saban and other sports leaders with ties to West Virginia are urging Senator Joe Manchin to support voting rights legislation, according to a letter dated January 13 that became public on Wednesday. “We strongly support urgently needed legislation that will protect both the rights of voters and…
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh Announces 2022 Legislative Priorities – Issues Expected to Dominate: Dealing with Covid, Redistricting, the Environment and Climate Change, Legalizing Pot, Banning Ghost Guns and Landlord Evictions – Editor’s Note: We are taking an interest in the Maryland General Assembly this year, heading into session this week. We are particularly qualified…
President Joe Biden addressed the nation from Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2022 to mark one year since the deadly assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Following is the video and full text transcript of his remarks. 9:16 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Madam Vice President, my fellow Americans: To…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 6, 2022) — Not long after the sun came up on Jan. 6, 2021, while we got ready to watch Congress affirm the Electoral College results showing Joe Biden the winner in the presidential election of 2020, we found out that two Democrats had…
The Insurrection – The Effort to Overturn the Election – By Craig Silverman and Jeff Kao, ProPublica, along with Craig Timberg and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post — Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S.…
By Editor Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – This time last year, we were experiencing the snow on the ground after the white Christmas in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I wrote: “As the sun comes up over the smokies, reflecting the first morning light off a thick layer of Christmas white snow covering the ground and…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON. D.C. — The National Park Service got its first Senate confirmed director in five years Thursday when Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland swore in Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service languished under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to Roll…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House voted 222 to 208 to recommend holding Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress Tuesday night after the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously on Monday to hold the former White House Chief of Staff and member of Congress…
Congress Averts Another Costly Federal Furlough – “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” – Friedrich Nietzsche By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans in Congress who still actively support Trump’s insurrection…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Republicans are playing with political fire by threatening to shut down the federal government again Friday, this time all in the name of attempting to defund the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate applying to the private sector, according to Politico‘s inside sources. The vast majority of Americans support vaccines…
By Craig Silverman and Isaac Arnsdorf – ProPublica – Almost a year ago, Google took a major step to ensure that its ubiquitous online ad network didn’t put money in the pocket of Steve Bannon, the indicted former adviser to Donald Trump. The company kicked Bannon off YouTube, which Google owns, after he called for…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thanksgiving turkey break time is over for members of Congress, who return to work in the Capitol this week and now have only a few weeks before the Christmas-New Years recess to find a way to fund the United States government and pass some key bills to show…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the face of mounting criticism of President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland for not bringing the full weight of the U.S. Department of Justice down hard on Trump loyalists involved in a plot to mount an insurrection Jan. 6 and stop Congress from legally certifying Biden…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Timing, technical details and the Biden administration’s old fashioned way of using media could be to blame for why the historic and future significance of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act got lost in the mediasphere and the meta verse over the weekend. Depending on what else…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol met Tuesday night and voted unanimously to hold Trump brain trust Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for blatantly defying a Congressional subpoena to produce documents and testify about his role in inciting the insurrection and attempted…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s looking more and more like the American people will never be told the whole truth about Trump’s insurrection and attempted coup d’état on January 6, 2021. The political news site Politico broke a story Friday afternoon based on an anonymous, “scathing” whistleblower letter to high ranking members…
