skid row

Score one for the little people....

Health Blog : Los Angeles Bars Hospitals from Dumping Homeless Patients

August 4, 2008,

The Homeless and the country lost a true advocate and social justice champion with the death of Mrs. Stoner....

Sorta puts the kibosh on the old - and fallacious - idea that folks on welfare are living "high on the hog."

Los Angeles Still Homeless Capital of United States

I've been shouting it from the rooftops that the faces of homelessness have changed - dramatically - in the last year.

Well, we'll see if this'll stop the more egregious cases of dumping but believe it when I tell you that our own hospitals here in Nashville send folks packing all the time who could certainly use some time recovering in their units before being discharged back onto the streets.

I’m speechless and sort of weirded out about this which is happening to the county next to mine.

Here’s some background, a show I’ve never heard of until yesterday called “Gone Country” which is going to be filming in Paris Saturday.

A couple of quick things here - putting 375 cops in one square mile ought to have the impact of reducing crime and problems - that's a no-brainer.

I found this letter in Canada's Vancouver Sun paper this morning and thought I'd put it here to illustrate the ignorance that abounds in our world as it relates to those without homes. W.F.

Ms. Reese, you have just nailed it. I think this is what is most aggravating about addressing the issues of homelessness with the uninformed. They continue to conjure up the image of the skid row bum, deliriously drunk and soiled while laying in the gutter.