Sacramento Homeless blog

When I went to the Admin office of Loaves & Fishes to pick up a copy of the organization's Form 990 – the 'public disclosure' document that organizations of their type and size are required to file every year, and provide to the public – Libby Fernandez, the CEO, instructed me to "be respectful" and reminded me that I am a user of the organization's services. She told me this while I was standing next to Loaves' wall of rude and truth-twisting political cartoons.  I don't think that Libby saw the oddity of that. Thinking about respect , and being a freedom-loving American, a journalist (of a sort, that sort being a blogger and Sac Press stringer), and an admirer of journalism at its very best, I thought I'd satisty Libby's instruction by aping the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning procedures of " Polifact " in the St. Petersburg Times . What is more respected that a Pulitzer Prize, eh? "Polifact" uses a Truth-O-Meter to...

In Loaves & Fishes' May newsletter there's a missive, written in the second-person , that endeavors to show the desire for "SafeGround at its best," as a village of cabins. Here, "SafeGround" is spelled as one word [which is the same way the recently launched nonprofit by that name is spelling the word/words.] Que lastima! the spelling of the term has been in constant flux! Perhaps, things are settling. The term, which has many usages , is used in the newsletter sequentially to mean (1) an illegal encampment in the woods by one the local rivers, (2) a stay at a church that is probably legal, deftly (and laudably) skirting the anti-camping ordinance and (3) the vision of "an actual safe ground" with "sleeping cabins" [read: Tuff Sheds] on property where city [or county, if it's in an unincorporated area?] officials allow a variance to the tough, meanspirited anti-camping ordinance, that, I believe, both the city and county have...