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		<title>Free shower and laundry coming to Columbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for Columbia&#8217;s homeless: Catholic Charities of the Midlands will open a free shower and laundry facility downtown Monday, March 7, right across the street from the city&#8217;s bus transit center. As you can imagine, sometimes a hot shower and clean clothes can make all the difference when you&#8217;re on the streets. It&#8217;s filling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=159&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homeless in Columbia &#8230; on TV!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The local Fox affiliate had me on the air recently for a talk show about homelessness in the Midlands. You can watch it here (I show up around the 18-minute mark). So what else is new? Remember when I asked Columbia&#8217;s churches and charities if they&#8217;d be willing to open a free laundry service? Well, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=150&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being a Better Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among my glaring character flaws: I’m terrible at keeping up with friends. Matt and I made some close friends during our three days on the streets, and I want to do a better job than usual of not losing track of them. This post is about that. Ernest, Dawn, Tommy, and John were our indispensable Sherpa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=138&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back Outside: The Closing of the Winter Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia’s Winter Shelter closed for the spring Thursday morning, sending hundreds of the city’s homeless back outside at nights. “250 people are headed nowhere,” said Billy, a 56-year-old homeless man who’d been staying at the Winter Shelter. The shelter’s exact capacity is 240, but the fact remains: Living arrangements are up in the air. Billy, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=123&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo ID and the Silent Voting Bloc</title>
		<link>http://columbiahomeless.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/getting_id/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Patience is a virtue,” muttered the man whose elbow kept bumping mine in the Social Security office waiting room. The place was exactly what you&#8217;d expect: yellow wallpaper, no windows, everyone overhearing everyone else and smelling everyone else’s body odor. Folks were getting impatient. If you’re used to instant gratification, homelessness might not be for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=108&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to be Homeless</title>
		<link>http://columbiahomeless.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/how-to-be-homeless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We came back to our ordinary college life Tuesday afternoon, and already I&#8217;m taking the things I&#8217;ve got for granted: a microwave, a bicycle, a room to call my own. (Sorry it took so long to post this; I spent a long time trying to eliminate the wind noise and eventually gave up.) Our three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=96&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decisions, Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you&#8217;re getting $200 per month on your Electronic Benefit Transfer card. How do you spend it? You&#8217;ll want to stretch that money as far as you can, right? Get the 24-pack of Ramen, a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter, maybe some lunchmeat? But if you&#8217;re homeless &#8212; no pantry, no refrigerator [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=86&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Night at the Breezeway Inn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were up before the birds and out with the runners this morning. I’ll not say where we stayed because I don’t want to compromise our friends’ safe spot, but suffice to say it was not the Marriott. When you sleep on the streets, you are breaking the law. There are urban camping laws here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=79&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heading Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The things that will soon be my only possessions are at the foot of my bed. As you can see from the video, those things don’t amount to much.* It’s Saturday night, and, come Sunday morning, we’re heading out. Never before have the words “heading out” carried so much weight. We’re not just going outside. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=75&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Change of Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the new plan: On March 7, my roommate and I will head outside in Columbia, S.C. But we won’t be out there alone. Partly due to our much-publicized run-in a couple of weeks ago, and partly due to a lot of soul-searching and heavy thinking on my part, we’re going about this homeless project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=columbiahomeless.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11405417&amp;post=70&amp;subd=columbiahomeless&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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