Glenn W. Smith
Do Republicans really want to 'emulate precisely' the South Korean voting model?
April 28, 2020
South Korea's voting model includes an Election Day holiday, no required voter registration, and six times the polling locations.
Don’t answer the fiscal suffering with even more suffering
April 20, 2020
A lot of the demands to “open back up” from President Trump and his allies are just to set up later arguments that others are to blame for the economic losses.
Let’s defeat the coronavirus with the ‘Dunkirk Spirit’
March 30, 2020
Health professionals have told us what needs to be done. We must do more and do it faster.
A pandemic reveals our interdependence
March 16, 2020
Isn’t it obvious as the coronavirus spreads throughout our communities that the safest way to remain healthy is to help others remain healthy?
Celebrate Sam Houston’s courage. We could use more of it.
March 2, 2020
On this Texas Independence Day, there is reason for celebration. More and more citizens are engaging in politics, changing the dynamics across the state.
Vote: You are more powerful than you may know
February 18, 2020
Texas early voting runs Feb. 18-28, with Election Day on Mar. 3.
In Austin, Project Connect brings real alternatives to an insane car culture
January 27, 2020
We can’t road-build our way out of our traffic woes. End of story.
Texas is last in access to mental health services
January 13, 2020
Our society stigmatizes those suffering from mental health issues, but those who should be ashamed are the leaders who have failed to help them.
Trump takes food from hungry mouths at Christmas time
December 16, 2019
The Trump Administration has announced new restrictions on food stamp recipients that could take food away from millions of Americans.
A Medicaid Carol: A Ghost Story for Christmas
December 2, 2019
With the holidays upon us, this is a good moment to sit down by a cozy fire to read an updated take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
Don’t write your Constitution in a panic
November 18, 2019
Every couple of years we have to vote on constitutional amendments that, in a land ruled by reason, would probably be welcomed with the friendly, non-constitutional agreement of all.
We need a cease-fire in the state’s war on local governments
November 4, 2019
Republicans seem to think they can manage local governments better than local voters do, but they are deceiving themselves.
Wipeout: The obstacle course of voter suppression laws
October 21, 2019
The 2019 Texas Legislature added a new obstacle meant to knock down voters: a ban on temporary, mobile voting sites.
Austin City Council members are first responders to the climate crisis
September 30, 2019
The climate crisis is not a secret to the scientists and engineers of the energy industry. That they and the politicians who serve them have done nothing to avert the calamity is, simply, a disgrace.
There are answers on gun violence
September 16, 2019
The recent carnage in El Paso and Midland-Odessa has many Texans searching for solutions.
Bread and roses and Labor Day
September 3, 2019
Americans are working harder and earning less. Income inequality is at levels not seen since the 19th Century.
Who is responsible for the mass killings?
August 19, 2019
Perhaps if we glanced down and saw the string that traces the trajectories of the bullets back to our hands about to cast our ballots, things would change.
The divide that matters is between rich and poor
August 5, 2019
In both town and city, the so-called “Texas Miracle” is based on wage slavery and alarming spikes in income inequality. It is more catastrophe than miracle.
Heads we win, tails you lose: The high court’s attack on voters
July 15, 2019
Hard-to-meet voter ID standards, restrictive voter suppression rules, some of the most extreme gerrymandering in the nation – all have been employed by Republicans to build a wall against voters they assume will oppose them.
