Guess who went for Walmart greeter-training today at 11?

This guy. Atta boy, Sal!

Meet Sal

This is a story I just did for WNPR’S “Where We Live.”  If you’ve already heard it, move along. If you’re new to this, settle in. And that man over there? That’s Sal. Onward.

It’s here. The PIT count.

This week marks Connecticut’s rescheduled Point-In-Time count, the census of our homeless population to see who’s out and who’s in. Beaucoup volunteers have signed up to help count, and to administer a different kind of census, a tool that essentially grades people based on their needs, and their vulnerability (it has a long name, but …