Woody Guthrie once rented an apartment from Donald Trump’s father

Read this. Fascinating! The piece includes this: Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before …

Medicine Hat becomes first Canadian city to eliminate homelessness

If you think it can’t be done, look north Medicine Hat, a town of about 61,000 in southeast Alberta, which is about to declare homelessness a thing of the past. How? By giving people who are homeless their own apartments. And this with a conservative mayor who’s become a champion for the cause. We can …

Sal gets his normal life

That’s what he called it, Sal Pinna, a man who’d been homeless for 20 years. He called the life the rest of us live a normal life, which meant — for him — a kitchen and a television and a door he could lock behind him. Oh, and a television not ruled by other shelter …