I’m from a new land I come to you and see all this ruin What are you doing Alabama? - Neil Young – By T.W. Bigler – Spring is around the corner, but it’s no time to wait around for the movers and shakers in state government. Attorney General Luther Strange pushed forward and...
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The Big Picture: We Can Save the Planet and the Economy Too
Who Needs Jobs on a Dead Planet? – Bill McKibben at the front of the march - The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following folks from all over the country willing to travel thousands of miles and brave freezing temperatures and a bone chilling wind to march from the...
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What Will the Alabama Super Tea Party Majority Do Next?
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala. – The rain has finally stopped in Montgomery, after a February deluge that swelled creeks to overflowing and made for a soggy government tea party downtown. The boys of Agribusiness munched on shrimp and pimento cheese and crackers Tuesday night, giving legislators...
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Alabama Senate Business, Labor Committee Considers Open Carry Gun Law
Watch the video to see the debate about the difference between a concealed pistol permit and the current policy on gun possession in the state. By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Senate Business and Labor Committee debated an open carry gun law this week sponsored by far right conservative Senator Scott Beason,...
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Senate Business and Labor Committee Votes 5-3 to Approve Right-to-Work Law
By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Senate Business and Labor Committee approved passage of a bill that would add the so-called “right-to-work” statute into the state constitution, if approved by a vote of the people. The little publicized move was expected by capital insiders, and now the measure moves on to...
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Alabama Legislative Session Promises to be a Prize Fight Between Tea Party Republicans, Minority Democrats
By Glynn Wilson - MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Legislature opened its regular session of 2013 on Tuesday with a tea party rally outside the State House, then with the introduction of pro-gun legislation, anti-abortion and anti-union bills, a flat budget and a proposal for a pay raise for teachers that would be the...
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Republicans Kick Off 2013 Legislative Session With Tea Party Rally
The Alabama River from Gunter Hill Campground – By Glynn Wilson – CAMP GUNTER HILL, Ala. – We are back on the Alabama River after the first day of the Legislative Session of 2013. Not much action today. Just a bunch of crazy bills dropped into...
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Alabama Republicans Under the Gun for Opening of Legislative Session 2013
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – CAMP AUTAUGA CREEK, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature will open its 2013 session at noon on Tuesday with a Republican Supermajority, a Republican governor and a Republican Supreme Court. But at the end of the day at the end of the session that will be anything...
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News Flash: Half the People in Alabama Are NOT ‘Conservative’
The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – Reporting that Alabama is the most conservative state in the union is sort of like saying grass is green. Everybody already knows it, so what’s the point? How is that “news?” But you know Gallup. Them public opinion pollsters just can’t stop doing what they do...
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SELC Responds to Charge that ‘Radical Environmentalists’ are ‘Killing Jobs’
After a recent controversy over the state of Alabama’s regulation of utility rates in comparison to how Georgia handles it, and the distortion of that story by a Republican PR group blaming the Southern Environmental Law Center and other so-called “radical environmentalists” for “killing jobs” in Georgia because of the closure of 14 coal-fired...
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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star And Other Fairy Tales in the News
“Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are.” - From the 19th-century English poem, “The Star,” by Jane Taylor – The Big Picture – by Glynn Wilson – Way to go, working folks. You voted for former Riley aide Twinkle Cavanaugh for the Alabama Public Service Commission, and now you’ve got it....
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The Red Queen Effect: You Can Choose Running in Place, Holding On to the Past
Or Watch the Spotlight Shining On the Future – “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – - The White Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What if I told you I can see the future? No, not in some...
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Survey Shows Americans Dissatisfied With Corporations and the Government
Democrats Most Dissatisfied With Corporations, Republicans Just Dislike the Federal Government – By Glynn Wilson – Americans dislike large corporations as much as some are dissatisfied with “big” government, and a large majority of Americans want corporations to have less influence on American life, according to the latest Gallup Poll’s “Mood of the Nation”...
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Gallup Poll Shows Democrats Re-Gaining the Lead in Party Affiliation
Now 47 Percent Identify as Democrats or Lean That Way, While Only 42 Percent Identify as Republican or Lean That Way – By Glynn Wilson – It appears that the centrist course set by President Barack Obama in office and in the presidential campaign of 2012, and the decline of the radical tea party,...
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Unsuitable Conduct: Separate Messages at Gulf Restoration Council Meeting
Don’t believe everything you see on Teevee – By David Underhill – MOBILE, Ala. – Feeding frenzy of suits. That could have been the caption on a picture from a downtown Mobile hotel where the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council staged its first meeting on December 11. Federal law created this council to preside...
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Drop Your NRA Membership: Wake Up and Stop Being Fooled
EDITORIAL – When are the people of the United States of America going to stop allowing themselves to be fooled by radical extremists on the political right? If the National Rifle Association does not lose thousands of members after the insensitive and intransigent comments about the Connecticut school shootings, the public will get what...
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Merry Christmas Working Families: Republicans Want to Amend the Constitution to Give You a Pay Cut
By Glynn Wilson – Merry Christmas, working people of my home state of Alabama, especially union workers. Thanks for voting Republican. Are you happy yet? It’s not even time for the Alabama Legislature to convene in Montgomery. Yet the Republicans are holding meetings, scheming and planning, to see just how stupid you are and...
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Karl Rove’s Deal With the Devil Could Be Coming Unraveled
Karl Rove at a book signing in Birmingham, 2010 – By Glynn Wilson – Political animal Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove’s deal with the devil could be coming unraveled. It just goes to show it never pays to trust the dark side. The independent Web-based investigative news outlet ProPublica has somehow obtained the tax-exempt application...
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