By Ovetta Wiggins  |  March 18, 2019 As a sophomore at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, William C. Smith Jr. was getting dressed for classes when he heard Katie Couric say on television that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Smith spent the next few hours frantically trying to Read more about The Washington Post: From Annapolis to Kabul: Maryland state senator headed to Afghanistan[…]

By Diane Rey  |  March 13, 2019 State Sen. William “Will” C. Smith Jr. fondly recalls talking politics with his dad. But he didn’t always appreciate those conversations as a teenager. Back then, he was often more interested in borrowing $20 to take a girl to the movies, he said. But his father, a cab Read more about Maryland Reporter: Before deploying to Afghanistan, Sen. Smith races to finish ambitious agenda[…]