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Day 1: Killarney to the Black Valley You wake up in the dark. The wind outside is screaming. It’s the sea-bred, haystack-leveling wind that howled around Yeats’s tower and his stone bridge a hundred years ago. For an hour the poet paced and thought while gloom came in his mind. You’re not pacing. You’re lying […]
By Steve Bailey. This column first appeared in the Post & Courier. Congratulations, graduates: Take a bow because you have earned it, whether you are getting that diploma from high school or college. We are proud of you. Now comes the hard part, that elusive, scary thing called “success” in your life ahead. In an […]
[Steve Bailey is doing a great job keeping an eye on the growing scandal of SCANA’s nuclear reactor project. Here is his latest op-ed from the Post and Courier.] So with consumers yelling for heads to roll, what is South Carolina Electric & Gas planning next? The largest stock buyback in the company’s history, which […]
[This column first appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier on 29 April and is reprinted here with the writer’s kind permission.] On Monday, the heavens opened and the floods came, leaving much of the peninsula under water yet again. A day later City Council raved about a proposal to build a $40 million swimming […]
The Wrong Plan A week ago Monday, my wife and I went to John Wesley Methodist Church to attend the first of several “community input” meetings organized by the West Ashley Revitalization Commission. (The second meeting, for the other half of “inner” West Ashley, was Tuesday, and the “outer” West Ashley meetings are this coming Saturday […]
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