Past Issues :: 2006, July 1:: Contents
[Cover Story]
Poverty, neglect, tear at our founding ideals
Poverty seems to be increasing, not decreasing, although some government officials want you to think that everything is going along just nicely and just as planned.
Is America tearing at the seams?
[News]
Rose Haven's transition leaves gap in services
Eight years ago, Sister Cathie Boerboom helped create Rose Haven, one of the few women-only hospitality centers for women experiencing homelessness. It was a treasured resource that helped more than 8,000 women and untold numbers of children. Due to a loss of funding and office space, the program closed its doors on June 30. But Boerboom hopes to begin anew.
[Street News Service: International Network of Street Papers]
CIVICUS: Women must reclaim development and revise policy
At a worldwide assembly in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 23, women civic leaders discussed how money promised at G8 could be used to support women's organizations.
[Street Culture]
Out Key Road, Part V
Judge didn't even look up as he sentenced the crowd of us. "Maybe the food will do you good." Obviously, he'd never been there. Out Key Road. Like every judge, he knew nothing of where he was sending us, only that his job was simply to send us.
[Poetry]
Street Poetry
[Column: Samuel J. Scott]
Serving one's country doesn't have to mean a uniform
By now, millions of 18-year-olds across America have graduated from high school and chosen where they will spend the next four years of their lives partying, drinking and — yes — studying. But for Israelis of the same age, they are anticipating something very different: mandatory military service.
[Street News Service]
HUD tells New Orleans poor: 'Go f(ind) yourself (housing)!'
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has announced it plans to demolish more than 5,000 public housing apartments in New Orleans. If the demolition is allowed to proceed, public housing in New Orleans will have been reduced by 85 percent in the past decade.
[Column: Trisha Miller]
Mass evictions on the Gulf Coast creating the new homeless
As a public interest lawyer working on the Gulf Coast, I have witnessed hundreds of people forced out of their homes for nonpayment during the months following the disaster and hundreds more illegally evicted so their landlords could raise the rent.
[Column: Hungry in Portland]
A sunny day in the park, sharing the good life with Steve
A musician, poet and painter of houses and murals talks about poverty, global warming and living a full life on $8,000 a year.
[News Briefs]
PSU report echoes need for public restrooms downtown; Researcher finds link between homelessness, brain injuries; Federal court rules that FEMA is not above the reach of the law
[Editorial]
It takes a community to raise a home
[Vendors Corner]