Alexander Howard
Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
- Eliminating a famous program that cost just $32 million but delivers an estimated $40 billion in annual savings on utility bills just as our nation faces increasing costs & soaring demands has to be one of the dumbest public policy choices on a very competitive list. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
- In 2023, @wyden.senate.gov introduced a bill that would require sitting presidents & presidential nominees of major parties to disclose tax returns; www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne... POTUS Biden, @pelosi.house.gov & @schumer.senate.gov didn’t prioritize enacting good governance reforms in 2021
- “After library officials resisted, the DOJ officials departed without resolving the conflict.” One of those sentences that tells you who and where we are as a country in 2025: librarians are braver than law firms and CEOs.
- ABC News reports Qatar is going to give President Donald J. Trump a luxury jet for his use in office, in defiance of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause barring gifts from foreign States. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- President Trump has fired the Director of the US Copyright Office. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
- 2025 lede by @andrewfeinberg.com: President Trump nominated a conspiracy theorist & “Make America Healthy Again” activist who is not currently licensed to practice medicine to be the next Surgeon General, after withdrawing his initial choice ahead of a hearing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
