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Monday was a bad day. I had a embarrassing episode in front of a historic review board. I had been helping a neighbor who bought a very smal...

Late on a weekday evening I hear drunks singing, bottles breaking, an intermittent crazed scream and loud voices bragging and cursing. Peopl...

The Drop Inn Center just entered the blogosphere . Since there is so much talk about their possible move and various issues such as sex off...

An article in the Business Courier and Streetvibes both report that a deal is in the works to close the Metropole Apartment building and...

In Columbus , a group helping the homeless could not get city funding, so they turned to selling erotic castings and paintings.

Sheriff Jones in Butler County has stopped evictions , and then this interesting article in USA Today : ...a homeless advocate, runs a contr...

The Christmas Tree was jsut delivered to Fountain Square, and the skating rink is being put together this week. This reminded me of a post I...

Flag staked on river:   Tents:  

Interesting Article in Streetvibes about Roxanne Qualls' initiative to re-structure services to the homeless: The goal is a major overh...

   

Saw 7 kids taunting and throwing things at homeless men in the park last night. I heard a crash which turned out to be one man's shoppin...

A while ago, I signed up to receive notices when sex offenders move into my neighborhood. It is not something that I am overly concerned ab...

Volunteer have changed the DIC from yellow to green over the past 2 weeks: Front courtyard, possibly to be expanded: Mostly vacant buildin...

Streetvibes has a new online presence: http://streetvibes.wordpress.com/

 

This time not about streetcars. I just saw a 21 minute video by the CBC, advocating that the city of Victoria replicate the successful Hous...

At 1208 Race Street, is the First English Lutheran Church. A few homeless people have taken up residence on their steps for the past few mo...

This week, council is expected to approve the Drop Inn Center's Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) money. Articles in the paper and bloggers ...

Maybe I missed this story, or maybe, no one locally is covering it. The Lexington Herald has an article and it mentions that Covington rewr...

  Church groups come regularly to Washington Park to hand out lunches, and sometimes to hand out used clothing. They now hand-out on the si...