Message to the Poor: Leave Town! Now!
That's right, we don't care if you grew up here in Madison, or if your family lives here. We don't care if your...
Mixed Messages about the Homeless
On the one hand, there was a meeting on campus to help people understand homelessness and that people who are homeless are human beings...
Hardball.
I had heard about this from a church member, but was surprised and somewhat pleased to see it in the paper. Good churches...
Time Warp: Section 8 Tenants are Criminals
10 years ago, the leading reason cited for why landlords shouldn't have to take Section 8 tenants was that they are criminals. We...
Assume they are drug dealers . . .
A landlord, a drug sniffing dog and a chief of police walk into a press conference . . . I wish it were the...
This is just silly.
Ok - so I heard about this from 3 or 4 people before it was in the newspaper and its been bugging me, but...
Two Americas
I'm not a Democrat. I'm a member of the Green Party but . . . it's hard to ignore this. When is...
The Full-Time Working Poor
A lot of people think that "poor people" are just lazy and sit around and collect government checks. Since I work with "the...
Salvation Army – Doesn’t want our money?
Sometimes I think the Salvation Army gets the award for being most ungrateful. Or for being the biggest scammers when it comes to...
I made a mistake.
Gasp. Horror! That's right, yesterday, I made a mistake. One is bound to do that from time to time. The...
Allied Drive: They don’t know.
Yesterday I went to the meeting on Allied Drive to see the grand unveiling of the "plans" for Allied Drive. Fortunately, I didn't...
Homelessness, a start.
Yesterday, Kathleen Falk's Office invited me to attend a press conference on homelessness. It was an opportunity to thank County Board Chair Scott...