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Tag: Poverty

Economy

Moorhead Council changes its mind on homeless housing

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 23, 2014, 7:16 AM Jul 23, 2014
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The Moorhead City Council has had a change of heart — sort of — in its opposition to housing for the homeless in the city. This week the Council rescinded its resolution, passed last week, opposing an apartment complex for the previously homeless, the Fargo Forum reports. “We don’t have input necessarily on our destination, Read more →

Crime and Justice

Women arrested for dropping daughter off at park

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 17, 2014, 8:29 AM Jul 17, 2014
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A woman who worked at a McDonald’s in South Carolina probably would’ve been happier leaving her nine-year-old daughter home alone, but the home was burglarized and the laptop which might’ve provided a little entertainment was stolen. So Debra Harrell dropped the girl off at a park about a mile from where she worked. The mother Read more →

In Moorhead, a fear of ‘those people’

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 16, 2014, 7:52 AM Jul 16, 2014
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If a homeless person has an apartment, are they still a homeless person? If a person isn’t a homeless person, should a neighborhood still be afraid? These are the questions that aren’t being asked in Moorhead in the unfolding drama surrounding a neighborhood’s attempt to boot out a church-sponsored project to build housing for the Read more →

Politics

Who’ll help the homeless? Not Moorhead

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2014, 8:27 AM Jul 15, 2014
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Moorhead’s City Council has voted unanimously to oppose housing for the homeless. Read more →

The value of not giving up

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 7, 2014, 12:11 PM Jul 7, 2014
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The great Steve Hartman’s piece this week on a teacher in a dirt-poor Texas town, who overcame her own poverty in the Philippines and was almost deported here, forces us to examine why some people “make it” and others don’t. A young student says he’s learned to never give up. “You can do anything you Read more →

Anti-homeless effort runs into neighbor opposition in Moorhead

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 10, 2014, 12:45 PM Jun 10, 2014
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In Moorhead, WDAY reports, neighbors are aghast at a proposal for a 41-unit apartment complex, sponsored by a group of area churches and intended to help those who are homeless. “We can’t be too self righteous,” resident Bill Beatler told the Moorhead City Council yesterday, just before it declined to take a vote on a Read more →

Want healthier children? Get some rats and cockroaches

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 6, 2014, 11:12 AM Jun 6, 2014
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A study out today might make roach, mouse and pet droppings in your home the new health aids.
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Crime and Justice · People doing good

Doing the ‘right thing,’ cop buys bed for teen

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 9, 2014, 9:12 AM May 9, 2014
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South Carolina officer Gaetano Acerra delivers on the police promise to protect — and serve. Read more →

Economy

Can free college tuition save a city?

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 16, 2014, 7:32 AM Apr 16, 2014
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Minnesota has a hard time keeping kids in school. In the state’s largest district, only about half of the students graduate. That’s not going to cut it. Ever. That’s simply raising the next generation of poverty and joblessness.

So a story on NPR this morning raises this interesting question: What if college was free? Read more →

Economy · People doing good

On the menu at the homeless shelter: A little respect

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2014, 3:19 PM Apr 2, 2014
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Today’s ‘gets you right in the feels entry’ comes from Glendale, Ca., where a group surprised 50 homeless people at a shelter with a better meal. Read more →

The compassion gap explored

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 3, 2014, 8:15 AM Mar 3, 2014
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Do we act based on what we know to be true, or merely on what we think to be true? Read more →

Five by 8

Church scandals, taking food from children, and return of a Purple Heart(5×8 – 1/30/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 30, 2014, 7:32 AM Jan 30, 2014
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Where now in the archdiocese scandal, a school throws food away intended for hungry children, the return of a Purple Heart, fracking fights back, and the Minnesota that keeps going in the cold and snow. Read more →

Five by 8 · Weather

Royally bummed in Hibbing (5×8 – 1/23/14)

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 23, 2014, 7:12 AM Jan 23, 2014
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There’ll be no Winter Frolic queen in Hibbing this year, dispatches from the land formerly known as winter tough, why schools will one day close when it gets to the 30s, was too much information released about the Target data break-in, and the science of poverty with Bill Nye. Read more →

The new face of poverty: young people

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 13, 2014, 12:44 PM Jan 13, 2014
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Seniors are doing relatively well these days. Not so for people in their prime working years. Read more →

Five by 8

A new home for the homeless (5×8 – 12/20/13)

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 20, 2013, 7:30 AM Dec 20, 2013
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Moving Saint Paul’s homeless, how public radio and TV cover news differently, a new hand for Harmony, Story Corps: the movie, and the day in Christmas videos. Read more →

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