Tim Wheeler

Tim Wheeler has written over 10,000 news reports, exposés, op-eds, and commentaries in his half-century as a journalist for the Worker, Daily World, and People’s World. Tim also served as editor of the People’s Weekly World newspaper. His book News for the 99% is a selection of his writings over the last 50 years representing a history of the nation and the world from a working-class point of view. After residing in Baltimore for many years, Tim now lives in Sequim, Wash.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Wheeler

Environment
$Clean water movement hails Maryland fracking ban$

Clean water movement hails Maryland fracking ban
April 3, 2017 By Tim Wheeler
Fracking contaminates water, soil, and air in vast regions where the technology is allowed.
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Labor

Baltimore mayor’s veto of $15 minimum wage stirs outrage
March 28, 2017 By Tim Wheeler
“An act of treason against the poor!” That is how one civil rights leader reacted to Baltimore Mayor, Catherine Pugh’s, veto Mar. 24 of a bill that would have raised the minimum wage here to $15...
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Culture

A greeting to Maryland visitors: “Welcome to Harriet Tubman country”
March 27, 2017 By Tim Wheeler
The visitor center opened three weeks ago and has become a magnet drawing people from Baltimore, Washington, DC., Philadelphia and even from abroad.
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Environment

No farms, no food: Washington’s Ward-Wheeler Farm preserved
March 8, 2017 By Tim Wheeler
Activists and farmers in Washington state have scored a victory for farmland conservation. 40 acres have been saved from the onslaught of real estate developers.
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Culture

Woody Guthrie, songwriter and People’s World columnist, sings again
February 2, 2017 By Tim Wheeler
An ensemble from Scotland brings Woody Guthrie’s radical, pro-worker songs and commentary to life.
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Politics

Washington state voters approve wage hike, send Jayapal to Congress
November 22, 2016 By Tim Wheeler
Jayapal is a grassroots community activist in Seattle who spearheaded the defense of undocumented immigrants.
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Opinion

They shall not pass: Fighting fascism in 1930s Britain
November 18, 2016 By Tim Wheeler
"My dad told me about Oxford’s anti-fascist students, many of them members of the Communist Party of Great Britain."
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U.S.

India-born Pramila Jayapal, a fighting progressive, wins Washington State primary
August 11, 2016 By Tim Wheeler
As a Washington state senator, Jayapal championed protections for immigrants and minorities and voting rights for all, and for a raise in the state minimum wage.
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