Maria Foscarinis Tells It Like It Is

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...

Big-City Sheriff Halts Evictions

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?...

Washington, D.C., Homeless in a World of Hurt

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...

Humor as a Tool for Social Change

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,...