Power to the Working Class
[This op-ed appeared last week in Charleston’s Post & Courier.] It’s gut-check time for Republicans. Are they the party Donald Trump Continue reading
An Honest Wage?
[Steve Bailey published this piece in the Post and Courier on 4 February 2017. He’s kindly given permission to republish Continue reading
OMG GOP WTF?
These are some of the posters that I saw at the Women’s March in Charleston. We began at the Women’s and Continue reading
A Sad Day for the South
People like Nikki Haley and Lindsay Graham tell us that the battles are over. The New South has thoroughly taken root and flourished, like a gigantic live oak, and we all enjoy its shade, sipping sweet tea together. There is no New Jim Crow.
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
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
The Glebe Street Hacks 