Bridget Grumet
Editorial Writer and Columnist at Austin American-Statesman
Editorial Page Editor and columnist @statesman. Tell me about that thing no one's talking about. DMs open or [email protected]. RT ≠ endorsements.
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5 days ago |
yahoo.com | Bridget Grumet
If you decided to devise a scheme to frustrate loyal voters so much that a good chunk of them would just give up, you might arrive at something like the Senate Bill 1 that Texas lawmakers passed in 2021. Perhaps you remember the dustup over this solution-in-search-of-a-problem election bill. Anyone filling out an application to vote by mail, or sending the mail-in ballot itself, suddenly had to include their state ID number or the last four digits of their Social Security number on the envelope.
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2 weeks ago |
statesman.com | Bridget Grumet
Like a buzzard scanning the landscape for a wounded creature that might be easy pickings, Paxton pounced this month on Austin ISD, announcing he’s “taking legal action” over schools allegedly “teaching woke critical race theory.”Not that he provided meaningful evidence of this (and pause, for a moment, on the fact we’ve accepted it’s the job of our state’s top law enforcement officer to police the content of K-12 history lessons).
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Bridget Grumet
If you can get past the obvious ick factor, a city’s sewage contains an ocean of information. During the pandemic, for instance, Austin and other cities tracked COVID surges and new variants of the virus by routinely testing the wastewater — a sensible public health endeavor. But some of the same Texas lawmakers who seem awfully obsessed with who’s in the bathroom stall next to you are pushing another kind of bathroom bill that’s even creepier.
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1 month ago |
statesman.com | Bridget Grumet
If you can get past the obvious ick factor, a city’s sewage contains an ocean of information. During the pandemic, for instance, Austin and other cities tracked COVID surges and new variants of the virus by routinely testing the wastewater — a sensible public health endeavor. But some of the same Texas lawmakers who seem awfully obsessed with who’s in the bathroom stall next to you are pushing another kind of bathroom bill that’s even creepier.
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1 month ago |
statesman.com | Bridget Grumet
Stephen Tucker’s home was a burgundy Buick Regal Gran Sport parked in the downtown lot under Interstate 35, with blankets covering the windows. Tucker had recently replaced the battery, but the car still wouldn’t start. “Hey, it’s the mechanic!” Brendan Gemmell hollered as he pulled up in his Austin Animal Services van on a recent morning. “Can you give me a boost?” Tucker asked. “You got it, brother,” Gemmell said.
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