by Pat Hartman | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
How about a quick update on events in Seattle and around Amazon since the most recent chapter of the cautionary tale. In September, The Seattle Times looked into some of the ways in which people “exit to permanent housing,” or leave the condition of homelessness. If...
by Pat Hartman | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
We recommend The Universal Living Wage Whitepaper, the comprehensive guide to an idea whose time has come, written by House the Homeless co-founder Richard R. Troxell, which can be read online or downloaded. There is a lot to absorb, but the basic ideas are easily...
by Pat Hartman | Feb 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Unfortunately, more still needs to be said about military servicemembers and suicide. The whole subject is fraught with political and emotional minefields. We discussed the “won’t accept help” trope, and the terrible barrier created by “bad paper” discharges that...
by Pat Hartman | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the previous post, we learned that the servicemember suicide rate is not quite as high as what people go around saying. Forget about the frequently and erroneously cited 22 suicides per day — it’s “only” 20.6 per day. That is also an upsetting statistic, especially...
by Pat Hartman | Feb 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Last time we talked about some of the incidents described in Richard R. Troxell’s book, Looking Up at the Bottom Line. Back in 1989, there was talk of decommissioning Bergstrom Air Force Base, right outside Austin. Richard set out to gather support for the idea of...
by House the Homeless | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Pictured on this page is one of the smartest and most beloved Texans who ever shared thoughts with the world. His bio says, National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and New York Times best-selling author, Jim Hightower has spent four decades battling the...
