Up here in downtown Toronto there is a street vendor near our building who sells sausages & hotdogs who gives several homeless people each day a free lunch. I give him credit for doing this. He never says anything about it but we see it happen each day around 2pm after the lunch rush. Apparently he has quietly done this for nearly a decade. The local reaction is very odd. The security guards at the banking buildings oppose it because they want the homeless away from their buildings. The Toronto cops support it because it helps them to effectively reach out to the homeless and build trust via the street vendor. The bank workers are split between support and negativity.
Late Wednesday night, Republican Congressional leaders announced that they would be dropping the planned vote for today on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which, if implemented, would have instilled a nationwide ban on all abortions after week 20 of a pregnancy. The Washington Post reports that the vote was abandoned largely because of the failure of many Republican women to support the proposed bill — led by Reps. Rene Ellmers (R-N.C.) and Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), who had raised concerns about public fallout with female and younger voters.
Abstinence-only means not teaching students about condoms. It doesn't mean not teaching them how to put on "socks"
We should all be Okies from Muskogee. From that small Oklahoma town comes an example for the entire country on how a police department should conduct itself, starting with equipping its officers with body cameras and following through with a promise to be as transparent as possible in the wake of a fatal cop involved shooting.
I'm guessing that the elites in the Eurozone, encouraged by the US, are going to destroy Greece. They will calculate that if Greece has any success at not submitting to whatever the elites want them to do, other countries will be sure to follow. That can't be allowed to happen, so Greece will have to suffer mightily. Not that I think the leftists in Greece will use their obstinance to any good end. They'll screw things up, too.
An Albuquerque program that has moved hundreds of homeless people into homes could go statewide. "Heading Home Albuquerque" provides a steady place to live and keeps homeless people out of jail, out of the emergency rooms, and getting treatment for alcohol and drug problems. Mayor Richard Berry led the charge to get the program going in his first term and it's now a model for similar efforts in other cities. In the legislature, Democratic Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque gives the Republican mayor huge credit for Heading Home's success, and says helping the homeless is not a party politics issue. "They've actually moved several hundred people off the streets into housing," Ortiz y Pino said. "They've got them into job training programs, got them into drug and alcohol treatment programs, and they've made a difference. It's a simple concept but it takes a lot of work." Ortiz y Pino is the sponsor of a bill that is gaining bipartisan support. It would pump more money into the Albuquerque program next year, then start a Las Cruces "Heading Home" the next year, followed by Santa Fe, Gallup and Farmington. "We have a statewide problem," said Sen. Gay Kernan, a Republican from Hobbs. "I think the important thing is to begin in Albuquerque, move it to the larger communities, and then eventually find its way throughout New Mexico to help those people who are homeless." It doesn't hurt that in Albuquerque, city leaders from both parties say Heading Home actually saves taxpayers' dollars. KOB