Collecting My Thoughts

Our book club assignment for September is Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder.  Here is a summary of a model program from 1985 to the present at...

Our book club is reading Tracy Kidder's book, Rough Sleepers (2023). I was researching some of his information on homelessness, and saw...

"Elizabeth Weil detailed the crime, homelessness and human misery on display in San Francisco compared to the city’s pre-pandemic prosp...

Why are eggs so expensive in California? Over regulation for animal rights drives out egg farms. Why are there so many homeless people in Ca...

"No major American city has failed at the same level as Detroit, whose population dropped from 1.85 million people in 1950 to about 630...

I've been enjoying podcasts by some of my favorite conservative speakers, thinkers, politicians and webcasters. Found this today, ...

Because our AC died on the hottest day of the summer (95) and current EPA laws on R-22 prevent it being fixed (will have to replace) I was t...

Hugh Hewitt today has a good program on homelessness in California. It's not a new topic for him. Today he is suggesting that Conservati...

I hope the president and the federal agencies stay out of California's homeless problem. It's a state and local problem exacerbated ...

"Chick-Fil-A said on Monday that it has stopped funding two Christian charities after coming under fire in recent weeks from LGBTQ acti...

Today I packed a bag for a family or household to have complete sides with the turkey Lutheran Social Services will distribute--mashed potat...

I watched Fox's interview with Ben Carson about the federal government (my tax money) helping out the homeless disaster created by the D...

There was an odd juxtaposition of articles in Monday's Columbus Dispatch (December 31, 2018). 1) Immigrant who is a janitress bought a...

I do not understand how a city can spend so much on the poor and yet have so little effect. What's the answer--it obviously isn't mo...

"Los Angeles County's homeless population has soared 23% over last year despite increasing success in placing people in housing, ac...

There were about fifty people in the woods, behind a strip mall that sits right across from one of the largest outlet malls on the east co...

One of our Ohio branch campuses of OSU is having an event to draw attention to homelessness.  "The Ohio State University at Newa...

The last recession was over (according to the way the federal government figures these things) in June 2009, before any of Obama's ARRA ...

Emergency shelters are the next target for regulations from the federal government elevating gender identity over health, safety, privacy, a...

It's not easy being poor, and especially homeless. You have to support so many good middle class jobs. I was looking through the 2014-15...