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Low-end rent prices in Nashville hover around $500/month (fair market value of an SRO on Murfreesboro Rd near the old Drake Hotel is approximately $480 a month). Many of these places are not where you'd like to call home for very long.

I use the "tough love" approach pretty frequently in my daily routine and there is no doubt that there are many in our community who share Councilman Buscetto's viewpoint. Interestingly enough, a good portion of them are homeless themselves.

One of the hardest items to obtain as a donation for my clients, next to men's pants, is shoes.

Holy cow - a lawyer with a conscience?

Way to put those "Dems don't support the troops" stereotypes to rest!

I'm the committee chairperson on the Agencies and Social Services committee for the event and while this is my first Standdown event, it's the 16th annual, I do believe, and the folks who're working on the festivities and services could

As my Twitter peeps are painfully aware, I have a nasty cold and the coughing is out of control.

It even caused me to lose my dinner, actually.

You're welcome.

I have ransacked the cabinets, and have taken pretty much one of everything I can find, including some 5 year old cough medicine with codeine.

How awesome is it that a Chiropractor forgoes her fee to provide greatly needed services to the Homeless population of New York City?

As readers of this blog know, a couple of months ago the Nashville Homeless Power Project spent significant energy and dollars in taking over some abandoned HUD properties in foreclosure.

A growing army of pissed off peeps who've been victimized by terrible economic policies, a needless war, the ripple effects of oil-gouging and the long-since disproven "trickle-down" economic theory are gearing up to change the way the government does things.