With the paltry rate of posting on Grits, you might have thought I was no longer writing. But I’m pleased to announce a new zine I’ve been working on over the past couple of years: A micro-history of a small, 100-year-old neighborhood grocery store 2 blocks from my home, inContinue Reading
The departing President, like Reagan, leaves a bloodstained foreign policy legacy., Read MoreContinue Reading
Like New York’s Amazon Labor Union, Amazon workers organizing with CAUSE report unsafe conditions and a determination to fight for worker power., Read MoreContinue Reading
Despite the recent ceasefire agreement, hunger and malnutrition remain acute for thousands of families in Gaza., Read MoreContinue Reading
For folks in Austin, please come to Grits’ zine launch Sunday, July 23rd, from 2-4 p.m.. We’re going to record interviews w/ me and others by Congressman Greg Casar about the zine topic (the history of a neighborhood grocery store 2 blocks from my house that turns 100 years oldContinue Reading
We are all inexorably linked by our energy choices and their impacts. After seeing the costs we all share, what will we do about it?, Read MoreContinue Reading
Having taken all of 2023 off, my spouse absolving me of all income generation responsibilities for the year, I left this humble blog to lie fallow, checking in only to promote other interests. I still don’t know what the future holds for this lowly opuscule, but having had multiple reportersContinue Reading
My mind has only partially been on anything criminal-justice related, lately, as I finished up the second of my little neighborhood history zines (pre-sale coming soon), and settled back in to Austin routines during the holiday season, after 4.5 months in Mexico. But as 2024 unfolds, here are six observationsContinue Reading
My next neighborhood history zine, Icarus in Heels and Fur, comes out February 22nd. Without exaggeration, I think it may be the best thing I’ve ever written. Pre-order here. This one is essentially a noir murder mystery from the 1940s: When, after her husband’s murder, a petite but ruthless widow buildsContinue Reading
The free speech case of Joe Gow, former tenured professor and chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, may find itself in front of the Supreme Court., Read MoreContinue Reading
It’s time to take a good, hard look at whether Medicare Advantage plans are doing more harm than good., Read MoreContinue Reading
If we want to expand renewable energy throughout the country, the United States needs to improve its electric grid., Read MoreContinue Reading
An old-school tough-on-crime campaign has been launched in the Travis County Democratic primary by Some Guy I’ve Never Heard Of named Jeremy Silverbelly, or Silverspoon, or something. To be honest. I never can remember his name. He’s just the guy a bunch of Republican donors picked to try to oustContinue Reading