Subject: Homelessness

• They Might Be Pastors

  August 31, 2007

• Chicken Soup for Tripp

  January 7, 2008

• The Runaway Sons, Thunder Eagle and Dead Set at the Point, 5/29/08

  May 30, 2008

• Remembering homeless "lobbyist" David Owen

  June 12, 2008

• Housing market hits those without houses, too

  October 31, 2008

• Most Colorful Kansas Citian

  January 27, 2000

• Mail

  Letters from the week of March 16, 2000

  March 16, 2000

• Letters

  January 4, 2001

• Songs of Solomon

  November 29, 2001

• Best Coffee Shop Art Project

  October 17, 2002

• UMKC confronts homelessness

  Students at the University of Missouri- Kansas City may be going hungry today. As part of its Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the campus chapter of the NAACP is asking class-goers to skip a meal and drop what they would have spent into a collection bucket for Harvesters food pantry. It's not the group's only effort this week to get the urban campus involved in aiding the city's homeless population. Last night, residents from the City Union Mission shared their stories during a tearful

  March 17, 2009

• Break Through

  March 30, 2006

• Living Things protest waste by burning up good money

  The border around that YouTube video is green. Like money. I received a press release today about the St. Louis band Living Things, which did something kinda outrageous at SXSW last week. The band burned money on stage. Several times. The stunts were done in protest "Wall Street's dirty ways" according to the release. The band also had this to say: "Our mother is a bank manager at Bank of America. Our father is a small business owner. We believe in the American Dream. But the dream is broke

  March 24, 2009

• Letters from the week of 12-28-2006

  December 28, 2006

• ¡Ay, caramba! – despite Bart Simpson’s use of it, this Spanish swear is still valid

  April 9, 2009

• From Kansas City’s industrial frontier, a heartwarming tale of warehouse warfare

  December 18, 2008

• Letters

  September 18, 2008

• Home Sweet Parking Lot

  When a workingman doesn’t have a home in Johnson County, a Wal-Mart parking lot is the next best thing.

  September 4, 2008

• Spare Any Change?

  Kansas City's big-money donors fund art museums and symphony halls but not a homeless center.

  January 3, 2008

• Hey, Nonsmokers

  May 10, 2007

• Dead Man's Camp

  February 1, 2007

• Urban Killers

  August 3, 2006

• Homeward Bound

  July 13, 2006

• The Lonely Guy

  March 9, 2006

• King Me

  Letters from the week of

  February 2, 2006

• Be the Change

  April 23, 2009

• Think Twice

  It’s another day in paradise for the Full Circle Theatre Co.

  February 24, 2005

• No Free Lunch

  Downtown champions forgot the kitchen sink.

  February 12, 2004

• Street Scenes

  Who really owns downtown?

  July 17, 2003

• Where's Waco?

  U.S. Mission residents smell a Rathole.

  May 8, 2003

• A Grand Design

  A congregation of homeless people wants to help save downtown.

  February 6, 2003

• King Richard

  Our old friend Richard Tripp is no chicken.

  March 28, 2002

• Photo Drive

  Kansas City Art Institute students know that it’s better to give the homeless cameras than to take their pictures.

  November 29, 2001

• Cold Cuts

  The weather outside has gotten as chilly as City Hall.

  January 10, 2002

• Best Remnant of the Dead Streetcar System

  Brookside way station

  October 18, 2001

• Over a Barrel

  Good times are bad news for the homeless.

  February 1, 2001

• No Room for the Innkeeper

  Newly prospering neighbors find the recipe for conflict in a soup kitchen.

  December 21, 2000

• Smokes & Mirrors

  Show me a billboard, and I'll show you litter with a home.

  September 28, 2000

• A community hidden but close

  Kansas City's homeless community is just that _ a community, and one that may be tighter than most. But in terms of their humanity, homeless people often are the same as us working slobs.

  February 24, 2000

• Kansas Supreme Court upholds conviction of woman involved in the murder of lobbyist

  Kimberly Danielle SharpThe Kansas Capitol hasn't been the same without self-appointed homeless lobbyist and registered sex offender David Owen. Three years ago, I profiled Owen in the midst of lawmakers' sex-offender hysteria while Owen -- convicted of possessing child pornography in 1998 -- was walking the halls, which were often filled with children. Owen wanted strict penalties for sex offenders, but his mission was to send every homeless person home. If that meant destroying homeless camps t

  June 23, 2009

• Guerrilla gardener targets KC highway

  The urban guerrilla arrives by bike, his plaid, farmer-like shirt unbuttoned and his hair matted with sweat from the near-100-degree heat. The dirt under his nails indicates that he's a gardener. But he's doesn't want to reveal too much about his efforts greening the city. He will speak only on condition of anonymity. His nom de guerre: G3. His tactic: hijacking public land for undercover food production.

  June 29, 2009

• Sad Stats

  July 30, 2009

• Pet Costume Contest

  October 22, 2009

• The Paseo YMCA went from community hub to flophouse in 40 years

  ​In the four decades since it closed, the Paseo YMCA has been a lot of things: historical emblem, graffiti sketchpad, and lately, a flophouse where the homeless around 18th and Vine crash. If the directors of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum have their way, the building will get new life as the John "Buck" O'Neil Education and Research center.The Paseo YMCA, located around the the corner from the museum complex, was completed in 1914, and quickly became the first stop for Kansas City's newest

  November 2, 2009

• A WORLD ON TWO STRINGS

  November 5, 2009

• Veterans Day hangover: last Friday's Stand Down

  Last week's Veterans Day was an unusually poignant one, coming just a day after the memorial service for 12 soldiers and a civilian killed at Fort Hood by a man who, as far as we still know, was one of their own. Wednesday was marked by political speeches expressing love and gratitude for those who served our country.A couple of days later, though, there was a less-ceremonial and all-too-real veterans day at Memorial Hall in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. There, the Heart of America Stand Down an

  November 16, 2009

• Leftovers: Chili cookoff, food drive, and new menus

  ​​​Here are some random newsy items from my reporter's notebook.Chili Cookoff Benefit Great chili comes from the heart, so the third annual chili cook-off sponsored by the Wyandotte Homeless Services Coalition is a no-brainer. The event is slated for Thursday, November 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Wilhemina Gill Services Center (645 Nebraska Avenue) in Kansas City, Kansas. Entry is $5 with proceeds going to the Milla Massey Scholarship Fund for "youth who face homelessness." 

  November 18, 2009