Tag Archive for North Carolina

Toxic Coal Ash is Back on the Agenda as an Environmental Issue of Our Time

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Editor’s Note: For the past five years, while the New American Journal has continued to keep up with some major stories related to the natural environment such as the latest news on global warming and climate change, our priorities have tended to focus largely on coverage of national science and public affairs, and some state…

Secret Vistas: A Spiritual Experience in Shenandoah

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By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. — It’s a bit early for a year in review story, but for me, it’s been one hell of a year. A humbling year. I’ve long known that we are all just like tiny grains of sand in the long run of history, here on this special beach of…

Biden Pulls Ahead in Pennsylvania and Georgia: Lead Holds in Arizona and Nevada

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Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead of Republican Donald Trump overnight in Georgia and Pennsylvania and his lead is holding up in Nevada, putting him in a position to potentially take the presidency in the Electoral College. His lead shrank…

White Supremacy Rises as a Political Factor in West North Carolina Congressional Race: A Microcosm of a Nation Divided

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By Glynn Wilson – ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, fall is in the air and the people are starting to pay attention to politics with less than 30 days to go before the election November 3. And just as white supremacy has come to the fore in Donald…

Secret Vistas: Curtis Creek Campground in the Pisgah National Forest

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Secret Vistas –  By Glynn Wilson –  Back in the late 20th century, when the written word and truth still seemed to matter, I was hanging out in the Great Smoky Mountains and came up with a cool title for a travel-nature column for The Southerner magazine, something I still use from time to time…

Shenandoah One More Time in the Summer of Our Discontent

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Secret Vistas –  By Glynn Wilson –  LOFT MOUNTAIN, SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. (Sunday, July 12, 2020) — In this summer of our discontent, with the coronavirus still spreading into every corner of the world and the economy teetering on the brink of collapse, it is hard to totally escape the anxiety and stress of…

There’s Not Much Time Left to Plan if We’re Going to Survive

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, N.C. — We don’t have much time. It’s addicting in our newly evolved human condition to stay focused on the fast breaking news of the moment, the sensational clickbait. From day to day, we bounce back and forth from one crisis story to another.…

Hurricane Dorian Floods U.S. Coast from Florida to North Carolina

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Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After skirting Puerto Rico and flattening and inundating the Bahamas, where the death toll is rising to more than 30, Hurricane Dorian flooded the east coasts of Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina and made landfall at Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks as a Category 1 storm Friday…

South’s Slavery Legacy in U.S. Future — Church and State Not Separate, Shacked Up

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By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala – “He was his slave.” The man was casually describing the connection between a relative and “an old black man” who worked on an extended-family tract outside the city. They rode around together in the relative’s truck doing chores, he said, and the “slave” was allowed to live in…

Living in a Camper Van, if You Don’t Like the Weather, Move on Down the Road

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – MARION, Va. – We made the drive down U.S. Highway 81 out of Maryland and into Virginia on Monday on our first migration south for the winter in the camper van, making it to a familiar spot along Hungry Mother Creek, one of those many babbling brooks…