by Pat Hartman | Sep 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is a growing trend, and it’s not a good one. In some quarters, people experiencing homelessness are persecuted with a ferocity previously reserved for witches and suchlike. Here, in America, an amazing number of people live like refugees, and there is...
by Cecilia Blanford | Sep 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Labor Day holiday was created, we are told, when things were very shaky and President Cleveland wanted to make a good show of reconciling with the labor movement. We could use a little of that now. Labor, work, jobs, employment — what do we need to know about that...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
In mid-August, in Riverhead, New York, an emergency homeless shelter located in a motel was subjected to a raid that some local citizens called despicable and Gestapo-like. Ten officers and officials descended upon the shelter and searched 37 rooms,...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Fairfax Connection recently published a guest editorial by Gerald E. Connolly, who represents the 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Located in the state of Virginia, Fairfax County is one of the most affluent areas in the...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
For people experiencing homelessness, holding onto belongings is difficult. The danger of theft is one reason why shelters are sometimes avoided. And if some desperate person doesn’t take things away, the authorities will. What is called a “cleanup” of an area...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
In Britain, the homeless are known as “rough sleepers,” and like any metropolis, London has its share of rough sleepers who are, for whatever reason, uncooperative with efforts to get them indoors. It happens for a variety of reasons. A married couple might flat-out...
