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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Van Camping Along Highway 64 in the Birthplace of Conservation
Glynn Wilson A mountain meadow along the Davidson River during the spring blooming season. (Click on the images for a larger view. More photos and videos below.) Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson ASHEVILLE, N.C., March 25 — Sitting in a camp chair in front of the computer by the French Broad River, one of those…
Slide Show Video: Wild South Mountain Excursion 2012
Glynn Wilson Jefferson the dog in a huge mountain meadow in Pisgah National Forest by Glynn Wilson CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST — After hearing the news that I had been nominated for a Green Oscar by Wild South’s Roosevelt-Ashe Society for Outstanding Journalism in Conservation, I decided to pack up the Chevy van and head northeast…
Slide Show: Wild South Green Oscars 2011
The regional conservation organization Wild South presented the 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Society Conservation Awards Friday night, otherwise known as the Green Oscars, honoring outstanding work to protect wild places and recognizing “conservation heroes” across the South. Watch this photo slide show in YouTube to see who was there at the Celine & Co. Catering On Broadway.
Looking Glass Falls in the Pisgah National Forest
Glynn Wilson Looking Glass Falls, 60 feet tall, is one of the most popular falls in Western North Carolina, according to the National Forest Service. The name “Looking Glass” comes from Looking Glass Rock, where water freezes on its sides in the winter and then glistens in the sunlight like a mirror or looking glass.…
Wild South’s Roosevelt-Ashe Society Awards the 2011 ‘Green Oscars’
Glynn Wilson Maggie Johnston of the McDowell Environmental Center in Alabama with friends by Glynn Wilson ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The regional conservation organization Wild South presented the 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Society Conservation Awards Friday night, otherwise known as the Green Oscars, honoring outstanding work to protect wild places and recognizing “conservation heroes” across the South. “These…
Obama Administration Outlines Commitment to American Made Energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama highlighted his administration’s focus on a sustained, “all-of-the-above” approach to developing American energy in speeches around the country this week. He talks about doubling renewable electricity generation, increasing oil and gas production on federal lands and waters, and reducing reliance on foreign oil through fuel economy standards which will nearly…
EPA Administrator to Testify on FY 2013 Budget
EPA Backs Down on Secondary Air Quality Standards WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on EPA’s proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget at 10 a.m., Thursday, March 22. The Obama Administration proposed a budget of $8.344 on February 13, $105 million below…
Republican Legislators Push Charter Schools to Privatize Public Education
Task Force Says Bad Schools Hurt National Security by Glynn Wilson Republicans in the Alabama Legislature are pushing a bill to take some funding away from already cash-strapped public schools in the attempt to privatize public schools, a move that most experts say will just make public education in the U.S. worse. A report just…
Republicans Turn Off Women Voters in Droves
Obama Leads Romney by 12 Points Nationally President Barack Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney by 20 percent among women, and by 26 percent over Rick Santorum, according to a recent Pew survey. In the same survey, President Obama’s approval rating stands at 50 percent. He leads Romney in a head-to-head matchup by 12 points,…
Labor Unions Join Civil Rights March
The AFL-CIO and other labor unions joined the Selma-to-Montgomery Civil Rights March this year on the 47 anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Alabama AFL-CIO Al Henley addressed a night rally in White Hall on Wednesday night. Watch the video to see what he had to say. To see our full coverage of the events, check out…
Global Warming and Religion in Government: It’s the Media’s Fault
Glynn Wilson The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The dogwoods, azaleas and cherry blossoms are in full bloom a full three weeks before Easter here, but of course that’s no sign of global warming and climate change, according to the Republicans and the media in Alabamaland. The so-called Christians could care less.…
Republicans Asked to Stop Waging War on Women
What About Jobs? Are Republican leaders attacking women’s rights to distract us from their lack of a jobs plan? Jennifer Granholm takes on the latest battle in the “War on Women,” suggesting that this renewed focus on an “old, reliable issue” like women’s rights is merely to deflect attention from their inadequacies. Granholm suggests that…
Women Join Civil Rights March in Selma
Sharon McClendon Price speaks at The First Baptist Church of Selma on women’s issues on March 6, 2012 at one of the night rallies during the commemoration of the 47th Anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March. This will make you cry.
‘The Road We’ve Traveled’ by Davis Guggenheim
Remember how far we’ve come. From Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim: “The Road We’ve Traveled”. This film gives an inside look at some of the tough calls President Obama made to get our country back on track. Featuring interviews from President Bill Clinton, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Elizabeth Warren, David Axelrod, Austan Goolsbee, and more. It’s…
Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore Could Return to Alabama Supreme Court
by Glynn Wilson Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore could be returning to power to lead the Alabama Supreme Court as chief justice again if the unofficial results from Tuesday’s primary hold up and there’s no runoff. You may recall that Alabama was the laughing stock of the nation back in 2003 when Moore was removed…
Ignorant Racism on Display in Alabama and Mississippi
No wonder Rick Santorum won the Republican primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. Cenk Uygur of Current TV takes a look poll results from Alabama and Mississippi, where as many as half of Republicans think President Obama is a Muslim and about a third of them think interracial marriage should be illegal. He tells it like…
Attacking the Montgomery Problem From Camp Gunter Hill
Glynn Wilson An armadillo, all the way from Texas, paid us a visit at the campsite Secret Vistas by Glynn Wilson CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala., March 9 — You know, when I published the first column in this space nearly seven years ago in Takoma Park, Maryland, I never thought I would find myself back…
AFL-CIO Unions Vote to Endorse Obama for Second Term
While President Obama has placed his faith in America’s working men and women to lead our country to economic recovery, Republican presidential candidates have pledged their loyalty to Wall Street and the 1%. So the AFL-CIO General Board “voted proudly and enthusiastically” to endorse Mr. Obama for a second term, according to a statement issued…
Fact Checking Republican Newt Gingrich on Election Day in Alabama
Glynn Wilson Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich address a sympathetic crowd at the Alabama Theater (click here to see more photos) by Glynn Wilson BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich came out swinging against President Obama on energy policy at the Alabama Theater Monday night, the day before the primary election in the state,…
