By Glynn Wilson – A dozen Republican Senators turned against President Donald Trump on Thursday by joining Senate Democrats in a vote to overturn Trump’s national emergency declaration, the latest move in his ongoing effort to build a wall on the southern border of the U.S. Some Republicans who otherwise support the president on border…
Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights, by Doug Jones, All Points Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press and MacMillan Books. Book Review – By Glynn Wilson – The inspiration for the title of Doug Jones’ emotional, inspiring and detailed account of the legal cases that brought…
Will the politicians in Montgomery listen? – Alabama workers have sent $14 billion in Medicaid taxes to fund health care in other states over the past few years, money that could have been used at home to improve health and the economy – By Glynn Wilson – Simply for the sake of partisan politics, Republicans…
By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is signaling that he will join other Democrats and a few Republicans to vote against President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to reroute Department of Defense money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. By a vote of 245-182, the House…
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — In a room full of mostly white males in business suits at Wintzell’s Oyster House downtown on Dauphin Street Wednesday night, Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne officially announced he will run for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Doug Jones in 2020. The primary vote will take place on March…
Staff Report – Another rural hospital in Alabama will close its doors on March 31 thanks to a lack of state support of federal funding for health care. Georgiana Medical Center in rural Butler County will become the 14th hospital to shut down in the state on March 31, according to an announcement from the…
By Glynn Wilson – On Day 27 of Trump’s government shutdown, U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama held a conference call with reporters on Thursday and compared the failing negotiations to a “hostage crisis.” He said his colleagues in the Senate are more than willing to debate and fund border security measures, but only “if…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – It has truly been the Year of the Dog, according to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, a year characterized by “Action,” especially if you are a Twitter follower. You may be suffering from an overdose of adrenaline and dopamine. You might want to take a break during the…
Alabama Senator Doug Jones Tries to Forge Last Minute Compromise – By Glynn Wilson – The U.S. House of Representatives adjourned just before 7 p.m. on Friday, leaving the Capitol before approving a measure that could pass the Senate and be signed by the president to fund the government and the border wall President Trump…
Facebook Manipulation Had No Discernible Impact – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Birmingham Democrat Doug Jones had Alabama Republican Roy Moore beat in the U.S. Senate election last year before the Washington Post broke the sex scandal story on November 9, 2017. Our definitive reporting on the campaign clearly shows that, and the…
By Glynn Wilson – There may be no better example of a corrupt, capitalist corporation trying to profit from the American dream of young people in the United States to advance themselves with an education than the Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corporation of America, which announced this week the closing of 75 colleges across the country.…
By Glynn Wilson – Due to an ongoing crisis with the Trump administration failing to pay VA benefits to student veterans and students who are the children of veterans, and the lack of an adequate response from the Department of Veterans Affairs, bipartisan legislation was introduced in the United States Senate on Tuesday to begin…
Staff Report – Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Calls for Investigation Into VA Failure to Pay Veterans – In response to a news report indicating that the Trump administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs claims to be so short staffed it can’t do the math to pay student veterans benefits it owes, U.S. Senator Doug Jones…
Doug Jones joins bipartisan group of Senators standing up to Trump tariffs on aluminum and steel – Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – Trump’s Twitter Trade policies are already costing jobs and plant closures in the…
Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. – Nowhere in the country are people more supportive of the president than Alabama, yet they may be the first people hardest hit by Donald Trump’s Twitter trade…
Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — Democrats all over the country are buoyed by a surge in voters in enough places to take back a majority in the U.S. House, inspired by what they see as a mortal threat to Democracy by the divisiveness of President Donald J. Trump. More than…
By Glynn Wilson – The forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama by Donald Trump the day after the midterm elections and right after a contentious White House press conference has set off a firestorm of criticism in Washington and around the country and generated a host of anxiety in the legal community…
Critics Question Whether Judge Kavanaugh Has the Character or Temperament for the Supreme Court – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Proving that national politics has become a sensational, ratings busting reality show in the era of President Donald J. Trump, people in the nation’s capital and all over the country and the world…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charges of sexual assault have changed the political calculus in the Unites States Senate on conformation of President Donald J. Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. The charges by a California college professor against Judge Brett Kavanaugh just add more fuel to the fire for Democrats who were…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six-term Senator and Vietnam war hero John McCain exits stage left just at the moment when unlikely President Donald J. Trump is on the verge of committing his Saturday Night Massacre to get him in the history books alongside Richard M. Nixon as a…
