Killing the bike lane will kill bikers
[This column by Steve Bailey was first printed in the Post and Courier and issued here with grateful permission of Continue reading
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The Grinch of South Carolina
The Grinch here is not diabetes. It is not dialysis. It’s Nikki Haley.
West Ashley v. Downtown
For all those who think the peninsula has gotten far too much for far too long,
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Steve Bailey
Joe Minicozzi has this to say: Do the math. Minicozzi is an architect by training, but it is his ability to crunch numbers about cities in startling ways that we care about.
The House that Rosa Loved
When Rosa Simmons Blank died in 1915, the members of the Hebrew Benevolent Society assembled at her home on Glebe Continue reading
Trump Street, USA
So how does the sheet balance on climate change? On the one hand, we’ve got Charleston’s cataclysmic public cost of dealing with the rising Atlantic. And Miami. And Brooklyn. And Boston. And D. C. And the Outer Banks. On the other, we “have to understand” that doing something is “going to cost our companies.”
Fixing the Battery
[This post originally appeared in the Post & Courier, Sunday, 20 November 2016. It is reprinted here by Steve Bailey’s permission.] Continue reading
A Hyper-Nationalist, Xenophobic America
And so, as I have heard many ask since Wednesday morning, what is one to do? How is one to respond? Where does one find hope?
I have two initial suggestions
Standing with Standing Rock Sioux
The camp is rustic but well organized with a central kitchen that seems to operate 18 hours a day. There is a school. There is no alcohol, drugs or firearms allowed in the camp, and while there is some beautiful drumming and chanting in the evenings(the entire endeavor is considered a ceremony), it is very quiet by 10:00. It is a very peaceful and spiritual community.
The Glebe Street Hacks 