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Tom Coburn's campaign against government waste
Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is a real-life Murray Blum. Blum, played by Charles Grodin, is the president's accountant in the comedy "Dave," which I think of every time we have one of these spending dramas in Washington. In my favorite scene...Tags: Chuck Schumer, Apple iPhone, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Science and Technology
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Advocates work to find housing for homeless at downtown encampment
As a Friday deadline approaches, advocates are working to find housing for the homeless men and women living at a Baltimore encampment set to be cleared. Christina Flowers, president of Belvedere Homes, stopped by the site between Interstate 83 and...
Tags: Social Issues, Mary Pat Clarke, Charles Street
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One of 7 fires to hit small swath of Bend, Ore., burns old church
A string of seven fires within a city block in Bend, Ore., started with the scorching of a historic church during the morning darkness Wednesday and continued until after dawn, when firefighters spotted two cars engulfed in flames, officials said. After...
Tags: Social Issues, Anglicanism, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Medina (Saudi Arabia)
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Home care aides not getting paid
Many people in Pauline Konrath's situation live in a nursing home. At 85, she has dementia and Parkinson's disease and uses a wheelchair. But she doesn't live in a nursing home because her son, Joe, moved her in with his family. It's not an easy...Tags: Medicaid, Health Insurance, Lehigh County, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Government Health Care
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Resident concerned about lack of help for homeless in Jessamine County
mmoore@jessaminejournal.comPatricia Stella moved to Nicholasville about five years ago. Since that time, she has been active with Edgewood Baptist Church with various outreach ministries. But Stella soon discovered that her passion was helping the homeless of Jessamine County....Tags: Social Issues, The Salvation Army, Public Transportation, Edgewood, Russ Meyer
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Can Chicago end homelessness?
A little more than a decade ago, Chicago's strategy for fighting homelessness mainly involved stopgap measures like pointing people to a temporary bed in a shelter and giving directions to a soup kitchen. But then city officials, with the help of...
Tags: Alcohol Addiction, Government, Apartments, Public Officials, Roman Catholicism
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Bill Rosendahl, happy warrior
Robert Kennedy was a young Bill Rosendahl's hope for the White House, but Kennedy's rival, Hubert Humphrey, practiced the "happy warrior" style of politics that represents the principles Rosendahl has embraced. As he leaves the Los Angeles City Council...
Tags: Bill Rosendahl, Health Treatments, Elections, Television, Voting
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City to raze homeless encampment near JFX
Venus Wiles would rather sleep in a tent stuffed with blankets and all her worldly possessions on the side of the Jones Falls Expressway with her boyfriend, Michael Spence, than stay the night in an emergency shelter. The encampment — a...
Tags: Jones Falls Expressway, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Social Issues, Mary Pat Clarke, Vincent de Paul
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Homeless encampment an issue at City Hall
Homeless advocates and a city councilwoman sharply criticized Monday a Rawlings-Blake administration plan to remove an encampment of about a dozen homeless people this week from under the Interstate 83 overpass in central Baltimore. But administration...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Social Issues, Mary Pat Clarke, Rochelle Spector, Kidney Disease
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L.A. to ask high court to overturn ruling on homeless' belongings
L.A. NOWThe city of Los Angeles is scheduled Thursday to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling preventing the random seizure and destruction of belongings that homeless people leave temporarily unattended on public sidewalks. If the court... -
'Hold Fast,' Blue Balliett's new children's book, explores shelter life
Where to begin in addressing the most pressing needs of the children of homeless families, whose members lack necessities most people take for granted? Do not underestimate the ability of a mystery story to lift and empower even these children, whose...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Langston Hughes, Harold Washington Library Center, Authors, Social Issues
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Homelessness on the agenda
Members of Costa Mesa faith-based groups met Friday afternoon to discuss what progress the city and the Churches Consortium have made in addressing homelessness in the past two years. They also discussed goals for 2013. The Churches Consortium, an...Tags: Social Issues, Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith
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|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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Mar 6, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Jessamine Journal
Mar 5, 2013
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Mar 6, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Mar 3, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 4, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
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Mar 1, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Mar 1, 2013
|Story| Daily Pilot
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