By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What a difference a respect for science makes. After four years of being gutted and corrupted by the influence of polluting industry insiders with their heads all stuck up the hole in Donald Trump’s cult of personality backside, the Environmental Protection Agency is back in the Biden administration.…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a clean break from the anti-nature politics and policies of the previous administration, the Biden-Harris administration has begun to outline a different vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore public lands, waters and wildlife that in many ways support and sustain the…
By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered a sweeping address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday making a case to the world that the American government is back on the job after four years of disastrous craziness. His speech calling on Congress to act on climate change, a major infrastructure bill and…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Is the glass half full or half empty? It’s unclear whether we should report this as good news, meaning we are making progress informing the American public to pay attention to climate change news, or bad news showing that half of Americans are ignorant boobs. According to…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – The story is so far so good for President Joe Biden in his first 100 days in office as a clear majority of Americans support the job he is doing. Public opinion survey research shows his job approval rating at 57 percent positive, according to the latest…
The American Jobs Plan and Biden’s Made In America Tax Plan Explained – By Glynn Wilson – On the eve of Earth Day 2021, we should be thinking not just about the state of the natural environment and its future. Whether we have much of a future on this planet will depend on creating green…
By Glynn Wilson – As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to action on climate change and restoring science to federal government agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking the first step in a relaunch of its climate change website, according to a press release just out on the newly launched email list. Both the…
Live Video – By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the White House for the first time on Thursday night on the one year anniversary of the national emergency declaration over the coronavirus pandemic, and broke the news that his administration will beat previous announced deadlines for getting Americans vaccinated and…
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…
House to Vote on Changes Tuesday – By Glynn Wilson – In a historic vote of epic proportions that demonstrates the paramount importance of voting and elections in a democracy, Democrats in the Senate voted 50-49 on Saturday to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan for coronavirus pandemic relief without a single…
By Glynn Wilson – After working late into the night on Friday, the House passed a $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus bill called the American Rescue Plan advocated by President Joe Biden by a party-line vote of 219 to 212, including an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. The bill…
Editor’s Note: We are happy to report that the new Biden administration has begun to restore factual email announcements from federal agencies to allow news organizations to once again provide reliable information to readers. For four years under the previous administration, all the public relations functions of federal agencies had been coopted by Trump loyalists…
By Glynn Wilson – An independent commission will be established by Congress to investigate the Capitol insurrection on January 6 and the interference with the peaceful transfer power, according to a letter sent out Monday to Democrats in the House and posted online by House Speaker Nanci Pelosi. “Security is the order of the day:…
By Glynn Wilson – Political courage was seriously absent in the United States Capitol on Saturday as only seven Republicans could find it in themselves to join 48 Democrats and two independents to find former president Donald Trump guilty of inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021 as Congress affirmed the Electoral College votes…
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 –…
What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since Trump ran to Florida, dear And Biden was sworn in. By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Glory hallelujah. What a difference…
By Glynn Wilson – Editor and Publisher – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As the day broke, it was cold, grey and foreboding in Washington, D.C. on January, 20, 2021, as it was in Knoxville, Tennessee, when the cloud cloaked dawn came up over the Smoky Mountains. Somehow, someway, we survived one more final night with Rat…
By Glynn Wilson – House Speaker Nanci Pelosi didn’t waste any time in pursing a second article of impeachment against lame duck president Donald Trump after coming very close to being assassinated in the United State Capitol building last Wednesday by an armed and dangerous insurrectionist militia ordered to storm up Capitol Hill by a…
Evidence Suggests The Insurrection on Jan. 6 was Not a Spur of the Moment Accident: It was An Attempted Overthrow of American Democracy and Almost Succeeded Breaking News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There is no way that the failure of law enforcement and the military to protect the United States Capitol building on…
Democrats Win Historic Victories in Georgia and Take Control of Power in the Senate – By Glynn Wilson – On a historic day when all Americans should be celebrating a great victory for democracy, that news according to the visual media at least was overshadowed by a gang of delusional rednecks led to a fake,…
