City to adopt new homelessness plan this week
(Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a three-part series that also covered new strategies for dealing with homelessness
By FROM THE STREETS BY CHARLES SPRINGER
I have read recently where ol’ king George will cut social services, and add to the military and homeland defense. I smiled as
By Kenneth McCrae Santa Monica
Once again, that boogieman called homelessness appears on the front page of the Jan. 19 Santa Monica Daily Press. In it, John Wood writes that
Fewer people placed into permanent housing last year under City Hall’s ‘continuum of care’
(Editor’s note: This is the second article in a three-part series on homelessness
Help or jail? New programs would give transients a choice
(Editor’s note: This is the first article in a three-part series detailing new strategies for dealing with homelessness,
Center to be modeled after program in San Diego
CITY HALL — It will cost only $200,000 a year to run a sobering center for public drunks in Santa Monica
By Tony Street Bend, Ore.
A few non sequiturs for the New Year: The election is over. Bush won, again. Get over it (Viva la re-elección!). In 2005, “straight”
By TED WINTERER
It’s a new year. Thank goodness. 2004 was a tough year for those of us who fancy ourselves as progressive liberals.
I’m not talking about
By TED WINTERER
Some feel City Hall has been too soft on our homeless population, as if we ought to recruit John Ashcroft to round up all the street people
City officials have proposed opening a sobering center, or “drunk tank,” to help curb the problem of public drunkenness in Santa Monica. Some officials champion the idea as a way
the mean streets
MAIN STREET — Convicted felons Freddie Baca and Robert Mickles never dreamed they would be spending the holiday season selling Christmas trees in Santa Monica — they figured they’
City officials have proposed opening a sobering center, or “drunk tank,” to help curb the problem of public drunkenness in Santa Monica. Some officials champion the idea as a way
