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Get Pragmatic Tonight at The Basement

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Posted on August 26, 2008 - 4:02pm at Nashville Cream
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This just in: St. Louis' The Pragmatic will be playing as part of The Basement's poorly-spelled New Faces Nite. That'd be tonight at you-know-where, starting at 8 p.m. and costing you rien. (That's French for "nothing"!)

Watching The Party Die

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Posted on August 19, 2008 - 11:22pm at The Coyote Chronicles
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Cole, Una elementary schools build new wings

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Posted on August 8, 2008 - 7:06am at Vivian Wilhoite District 29
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By SUZANNE NORMAND BLACKWOOD and ANDY HUMBLES • August 8, 2008 (Tennessean)

This fall, Cole Elementary School will start the school year off with new leadership and quite a few new faces in the classrooms.
Chad High is the school's new principal. The school also has seven new faculty members. A new assistant principal has yet to be named.

"During the Great Depression, the homeless and down-and-out ended up living in shantytowns or tent cities. They were called Hoov

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Posted on July 21, 2008 - 8:50am at Stone Soup Station
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Not "may be;" definitely....

The new faces of the homeless look pretty familiar -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

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"Nashville Rescue Mission said 2008 has forced more working families out of their homes than ever before."

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Posted on July 5, 2008 - 10:04am at Stone Soup Station
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I've been saying this since the weather turned nice; there are literally hundreds of new faces on the street, at the Mission and in the camps.

The Unkindest Cut

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Posted on July 2, 2008 - 3:35pm at Maury Thinks
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Some local charities are having to turn people away because of a decline in donations caused by tough economic times and an influx of new faces seeking help.

Kara Huckaby, director of The Family Center in Columbia, said demand for rent assistance and free food offered by the charity has doubled while contributions are stagnant.

"My blood pressure is sky-high...We'll be on the streets. I'm just lost about what to do...the kids are looking at me like, 'Mom

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Posted on June 26, 2008 - 6:43am at Stone Soup Station
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I've been shouting it from the rooftops that the faces of homelessness have changed - dramatically - in the last year.

News From Around Town

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Posted on June 6, 2008 - 7:33am at Stone Soup Station
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All kinds of interesting things happening this week in the wild world of homeless helping...

Camps are springing up all over town and there's so many I can't even hit them all in a day! Scary, not to mention how many new faces are on the streets here. This is going to be a very busy summer, I suspect....

"Nagin recently suggested a way to reduce this city’s post-Katrina homeless population: give them one-way bus tickets out of tow

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 6:24am at Stone Soup Station
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Looks like we may have just discovered where many of the new faces might be coming from....

With Resources Scarce, Homelessness Persists in New Orleans SHAILA DEWAN Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008

"Rather than dealing with the issue, a city or organization ships the problem to Middle Tennessee."

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Posted on June 4, 2008 - 6:06am at Stone Soup Station
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Thank goodness someone has pushed this issue into the public eye. I mentioned the other day that there were gazillions of new faces around town and they just keep coming in.

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