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"...wholesale trashing of the 44-person encampment violates a new city of Seattle policy of salvaging such personal belongings."

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Posted on June 14, 2008 - 6:55am at Stone Soup Station
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It's hard enough to simply get the things one needs for survival when one is homeless. It's even harder to keep anything of value once one is successful in obtaining it.

A Curious Party

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Posted on February 27, 2008 - 8:37am at Volunteer Voters
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The campaign manager for an anti-war maverick Republican Congressman blames the Party’s inaction on the incumbent’s behalf for his February 12th primary loss:

Gilchrest, a political maverick whose votes against funding the Iraq war led to a conservative challenge, has never raised much money for the party or, until this year, his own campaign.

Blogging for Compassion

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Posted on February 7, 2008 - 8:09pm at Atwood Zoo
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A herd of amazing bloggers are heading to Uganda next week to let the world know about the work of Compassion International.

The trip was put together by Spence Smith and will feature live blogging by:

"...the ultimate solution is to create enough housing and services so we don't have to face that issue..."

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Posted on January 12, 2008 - 9:24am at Stone Soup Station
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Well, at least Seattle officials are giving some warning before coming in to "dismantle" the camps. Nashville has a policy in place that is supposed to send in a Social Services worker to a targeted camp in order to warn residents of impending doom, but it doesn't always happen that way...

Friday, January 11, 2008
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