Commentary: Some of our neighbors have nowhere to lay their head

By: Jessica Kaneft

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: September 2, 2026

Words: 912

Last Updated: 5 hours, 30 minutes ago

This series is named for the Jericho Road, where in Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, a man was beaten and left on the side of the road, and for Martin Luther King Jr.’s insistence that we eventually have to ask why that road keeps producing victims.

I never expected to find that story so literally true. On a recent Saturday morning, my husband and I were jogging downtown in the rain when …

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