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Restlessness at work
On Studs Terkel and what we do all day
Jun 7 • 
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Teacher workloads keep growing in South Carolina
Crises, austerity, and the erosion of a vital public good
Jun 1 • 
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Reading Du Bois' Darkwater in dark times
Poems, sociology, sci-fi, and a memoir of a teacher
May 24 • 
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Notes from a school board takeover
Nov 16, 2022 • Paul Bowers
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A field guide to Christofascism
Jan 21, 2021 • Paul Bowers
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A South Carolinian's guide to Nikki Haley
Feb 2 • Paul Bowers
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A peacetime budget
Dec 14, 2022 • Paul Bowers
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A primary candidate's guide to South Carolina
Dec 2, 2022 • Paul Bowers
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South Carolina: Buying poison, banning abortion, attacking teachers
Here are some grim updates from the Iodine State
May 17 • 
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Big Grocery is watching me
I requested my customer data from Food Lion and got some weird results
May 10 • 
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Against teacher censorship
This should go without saying, but apparently it needs saying
May 4 • 
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A magic kingdom that never was
Tracking down the rumor that Disney World scoped out Santee, S.C., as a building site
May 3 • 
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Public records are my passion. They can be yours too.
Sometimes you gotta go FOIA mode
Apr 27 • 
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The new statehouse liturgies
We need more words and acts of defiance like in Nebraska, Tennessee, and Kentucky
Apr 19 • 
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Spring Break beach reads
Improv comedy, android existentialism, long-distance running music, and a food guide for a doomed city
Apr 13 • 
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Brutal South
Brutal South
On struggles, schooling, & raw concrete in the dirty dirty south
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On struggles, schooling, & raw concrete in the dirty dirty south

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