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Seasons change
I’m pausing regular updates and taking a new job
Jun 26
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Paul Bowers
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Censors lose in the end
The speech police want to ban Ta-Nehisi Coates. We’ve got them outnumbered.
Jun 14
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Paul Bowers
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Restlessness at work
On Studs Terkel and what we do all day
Jun 7
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Paul Bowers
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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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Paul Bowers
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May 2023
Reading Du Bois' Darkwater in dark times
Poems, sociology, sci-fi, and a memoir of a teacher
May 24
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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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Paul Bowers
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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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Paul Bowers
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Against teacher censorship
This should go without saying, but apparently it needs saying
May 4
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Paul Bowers
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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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Paul Bowers
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April 2023
Public records are my passion. They can be yours too.
Sometimes you gotta go FOIA mode
Apr 27
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Paul Bowers
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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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Paul Bowers
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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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Paul Bowers
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