Public Affairs - National Politics

Trump Administration Declares War on American Conservation as Well as Iran

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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 the morality of a foreclosure notice,” according to one writer on Substack, “the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack…

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Letter to Google Demanding $3.4 Million for Page Views to Google Ads

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As Well as Theft of Text and Data to Train Artificial Intelligence Bots – Sundar Pichai Alphabet-Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 To whom it may concern: Now that a federal judge has ruled you guilty of engaging in monopolistic corporate practices in regards to search and online advertising, we wonder if you…

Media - Music - Movies

Alabama Guitar Slinger Wayne Perkins Dies at 74

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By Glynn “Cowboy” Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama guitar slinger Wayne Perkins, who’s playing in the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll inspired Southern Rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and influenced British Rock bands like The Rolling Stones, and whose lead guitar licks helped make Bob Marley’s Reggae music internationally famous, died on Monday…

Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll: Remembering the Band Chicago

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – “I just want to be free … free of all the hurt … all the pain … end those lonely hours … those lonely days, yeah, yeah…” Someone could definitely write those lyrics now and I could relate, as I’m sure many…

Still Thinking Differently, Apple Computer Turns 50

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Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – As Apple turns 50, I can’t help but think back on the turning point for the company when Steve Jobs came back in 1997, the year I turned 40. I will never forget the ad credited with bringing the company back, complete…

Letter to Google Demanding $3.4 Million for Page Views to Google Ads

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As Well as Theft of Text and Data to Train Artificial Intelligence Bots – Sundar Pichai Alphabet-Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 To whom it may concern: Now that a federal judge has ruled you guilty of engaging in monopolistic corporate practices in regards to search and online advertising, we wonder if you…

Opinion - Editorial Commentary and Essays

Is There Still Gold to Be Extracted in Them Thar Hills?

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A New Gold Rush Could Be Coming to California – Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – In creating my own version of literary journalism on the web over the past 20 years, as regular readers know I’ve often turned to Mark Twain and other American writers for inspiration.…

How to Save ‘Deep Thought,’ Ourselves and Communities

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – COULTERVILLE, Calif. – Are we losing not just our attention spans but the ability to think deeply at all just in time for machines to take over? Is it time for millions of us to die in war because the machine economy will not support us? These…

Science -Environment - Technology

Wildland Firefighters Issue Open Letter Opposing Trump Administration’s Plan to End the ‘Roadless Rule’ in National Forests

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Staff Report – EUGENE, Ore.— About 120 current and former wildland firefighters issued an open letter Tuesday calling on members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in National Forests. The rollback of the “Roadless Rule” would remove protections across 45 million acres of national forestlands, opening…

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