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The far side of the creek
On leaving church, leaving journalism, and never leaving home
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June 2023

Seasons change
I’m pausing regular updates and taking a new job
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Censors lose in the end
The speech police want to ban Ta-Nehisi Coates. We’ve got them outnumbered.
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Restlessness at work
On Studs Terkel and what we do all day
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Teacher workloads keep growing in South Carolina
Crises, austerity, and the erosion of a vital public good
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Paul Bowers

May 2023

Reading Du Bois' Darkwater in dark times
Poems, sociology, sci-fi, and a memoir of a teacher
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Paul Bowers
South Carolina: Buying poison, banning abortion, attacking teachers
Here are some grim updates from the Iodine State
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Big Grocery is watching me
I requested my customer data from Food Lion and got some weird results
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Against teacher censorship
This should go without saying, but apparently it needs saying
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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
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April 2023

Public records are my passion. They can be yours too.
Sometimes you gotta go FOIA mode
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The new statehouse liturgies
We need more words and acts of defiance like in Nebraska, Tennessee, and Kentucky
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