Bob CollinsChristie Gingles, of Duluth, says she has a new understanding and compassion for the homeless; being homeless will do that to a person.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Homelessness
You look like you could use a reminder that what you hear on the news isn’t all there is to real life. So, here.
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Today’s 1,000 Words comes with words.
It’s the voice of Jae Hong, a photographer for the Associated Press, whose assignment was to document the homeless crisis in the West.
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A gift shop in Bemidji that raised money for the poor of Eastern Uganda is closing, and that’s bad news for the homeless of Bemidji. Read more →
Homelessness doesn’t look like it’s getting any better in the Twin Cities, but it’s not for lack of trying — and there are successes. Check out La Crosse, Wis.
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It’s a shameful feeling you might get when you read the story of Brian Johnson and his friends, who are surrounded by old bikes in the woods along the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wis. Read more →
At least in the short term, Corey Jacob, the homeless Rochester man whose van was smashed on Good Friday when it was hit by a drunk driver, is going to be OK. Read more →
The Salvation Army has reversed a decades-old policy and will no longer bar people who’ve been drinking from its shelter in La Crosse, the La Crosse Tribune reports. Read more →
Jake Nyberg, a writer and interactive marketer in Minneapolis, apparently wanted to embarrass the Minnesota Vikings and force the team to deny they would help homeless people. So he started a rumor on Twitter that they were providing shelter in the new stadium, hoping the fake news would spread and force the team to appear to turn its backs on homeless people. Funny stuff, indeed. Read more →
She and her young daughter have been trying to move out of the apartment she and Philando Castile shared. But when she inspected it, and sounded almost as bad as the place she desperately wanted to leave, the Washington Post says.
But it’s the section about another person who was in the car that is the most compelling — Dae’Anna, the four-year-old. Read more →
On Saturday, artists and volunteers at the Weisman Art Museum Collective at the University of Minnesota are going to pick up trash along the Mississippi River. They will create some sort of installation to show how our everyday actions are affecting the river. In one section, someone has beat them to it. Read more →
The Pioneer Press’ Frederick Melo today tells the amazing story of Florence Matadi, the mother of Olympic runner Emmanuel Matadi who is competing for Liberia in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
You won’t see her in the audience, nor mentioned by the announcers at the Games.
She’s mostly lived out of her car in St. Paul.
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A La Crosse, Wis., church is shutting down its ‘tent ministry’ after its insurance company refused to provide coverage to the church that’s pitched tents on its lawn for the last year. Read more →
Michael Kelly talked to his mother on the phone on Mother’s Day, which isn’t particularly unusual except that Mary Reynolds hasn’t talked to her boy in about 10 years. He’s homeless in San Francisco.
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There’s nothing that can rip the heart like the sound of a dying dream. Read more →