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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heller Ehrman LLP is helping 335 first-grade children from New York City homeless shelters go back to school. The law firm’s New
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Give them liberty. Or in this case, give the National Liberty Museum's Commerce Bank Young Heroes Award to the students enrolled in Germantown's Green Tree School's Vocational Life Skills Program, who created a soup store and donated all the profits to the "Woman of Change" homeless shelter.
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NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Al Ghaithi family, devastated by a gas explosion last year, will move into a permanent home in Queens next week after eight months in a Manhattan homeless shelter.
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OUTLOUD (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
One homeowner is being bailed out of a foreclosure situation. I guess that’s a good thing. But who’s going to bail out the rest? Donald Trump has come to the rescue of Ed McMahon of “Heeeres Johnny!” fame. McMahon was Johnny Carson’s sidekick on the Tonight Show and was the face of Publisher’s Clearinghouse for an [...]
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SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
I wish I had smuggled the Polaroid snapshot of Nolte from my former employer, a men’s homeless shelter. Nolte wasn’t his real name, but I’ll be damned if the scruffy, gin-blossomed, gravel-voiced Vietnam veteran wasn’t a ringer for Nick Nolte playing a Nam burnout. He wore mirror shades and ratty field jacket festooned with medals [...]
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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State announced yesterday that it has written to the mayor of Washington, D.C. ( full text of letter ) to protest a proposed exchange of land between the District and Central Union Mission. Last Sunday, a letter to the editor in the Washington Post from a Presbyterian minister John W. Wimberly, Jr., also expressed strong objection to the deal. The city...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Residents of a Butler County homeless shelter said they were paid $1 apiece this summer to sign a petition seeking to repeal a new state law regulating payday lenders.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
UPDATED: Residents of a homeless shelter in Hamilton said they were paid to sign petitions.
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
BY SUSAN JENKS - August 11, 2008 Charlene Montour and her family never dreamed that their brother would end up in a homeless shelter, washing dishes to eke out a living. But, for the past decade, until earlier this year, he wandered the streets of downtown Orlando, suffering from a persistent mental illness, Montour said. "He's been falling through the cracks for years," she said, describing
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Faithful Progressive (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
As we have previously noted, people take sports way too seriously--just ask the new Packers QB, Aaron Rodgers. (Also see our post: I Give All of the Glory to Steroids...Of God, the NFL Playoffs, Crowded Homeless Shelters & Iraq which generated something like 3000 hits..) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The heir quality index: Rodgers denies Favre affected team’s focus “I understand it to some point if...
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Advocates for the homeless say a weakening economy is leading to overflowing homeless shelters with families and women either evicted from their homes or fleeing domestic violence.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
You can help supply back-to-school clothing and school supplies for 40 children living in affordable housing or at the Road Home, a Salt Lake homeless shelter, during a campaign that runs through Aug.
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Dean's World (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Pastor Dan Catlin (known to most simply as Pastor Dan) runs a homeless shelter in one of the most crime-ridden areas of Wichita, Kansas. In 2006, on Thanksgiving Day, the local news did a short piece on his efforts that you can watch here. He’s doing great work down there but he needs help. I’m [...]
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Dixon says city will close Edmondson site A month after the city started using Edmondson High School as a temporary homeless shelter, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon told parents and residents that the facility will soon be closed.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Cincinnati's largest homeless shelter is now using a three-strikes-and-you're-out rule for residents who get into trouble.
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angelads | 06/06/2008
Jeremiah Deshazo is an 18-year-old senior who has dedicated his time to the Frederick Douglass High School Athletic Program while maintaining a 'B' average. During the earlier part of the year, I was made aware of Jeremiah's living situation. Jeremiah had been living in a homeless shelter for 18 months. Jeremiah never told anyone about his living conditions until October, when a guidance counselor