by Pat Hartman | Nov 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today’s interesting person is Maria Foscarinis, Founder and Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, who says, […] I’ve spent the past 20 plus years working for policies to prevent and end homelessness in America. In my...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
When dog bites man, it isn’t news. But when man bites dog, that’s news. Fresh examples of this old saying appear every day. For instance, if you saw a headline that seemed to mean a sheriff was halting evictions, you would think it was a misprint, right?...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here is a news item by reporter Jack Encarnacao, about a body found in Quincy, Massachusetts. The deceased was assumed to be a person experiencing homelessness: A 47-year-old man thought to be homeless was found dead in a Quincy Center alley. The...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Washington, D.C., is the capitol of the greatest country on Earth. (Anybody who disagrees, don’t get excited. That’s kind of like saying America is the healthiest patient in the hospital — in other words, sick, sick, sick.) In the metropolitan area constituting the...
by Pat Hartman | Nov 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Jim Schutze has been writing for the Dallas Observer about every conceivable topic for freakin’ ever, and he’s LMAO funny. Now he asks whether a case can be made for killing the homeless. His article is called “We’ve Banned Their Shopping Carts,...