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homeless relief

"Hot weather's as deadly as cold weather"

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Posted on August 7, 2008 - 6:21am at Stone Soup Station
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I spent the last couple of days with a cooler and cases of bottled water, roaming downtown and East Nashville looking for folks cooking to medium rare in the afternoon sweat-bath. While I haven't seen the "hot-helpers" I know they've been out because I've been told by my clients on the street that the only other place they've been able to find water is from the Mission folks.

"Homelessness has a different face to it now,people who hae never been homeless before are suddenly in desperate need of help,"

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Posted on June 29, 2008 - 9:32am at Stone Soup Station
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For huge numbers of New Orleans residents, this is far too little delivered way too late. Much of the damage has long since been done to the folks in New Orleans shortly after Katrina made landfall on August 29th, 2005.

Each inmate at the Marion County Jail costs taxpayers roughly $37 per day: "We think that's a waste of taxpayer's money,"

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Posted on June 16, 2008 - 6:24am at Stone Soup Station
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I do too...

Proposed law worries homeless advocates Ordinance would keep transient shelters away from schools, churches, residences

"Being occasionally mistaken for a homeless person helped me realize how much we stereotype and discriminate against them as a p

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Posted on February 12, 2008 - 6:51am at Stone Soup Station
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Love thy neighbor -- even the homeless one By: Daniel Sullivan
It used to be easy to spot the homeless schizophrenics as they wandered around campus.

You know, they were the ones headed for the library, muttering and occasionally ejaculating out loud to themselves, gesturing for no one to see. Now, thanks to Bluetooth mobile phone technology, the distinction is getting harder and

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