News
Jan 1
Veterans, Alone Together, Share Stories They Can’t Tell You
The war on terror, which has now lasted longer than World War II, is producing a growing family of combat veterans. It’s a disconnected family, large and far-flung, but close in ways that battle-tested soldiers always are.… read more »
Dec 23
No Home for the Holidays: Homeless Students on the Rise
Homelessness represents an extreme form of poverty and is caused by many factors in isolation or combination: a lack of affordable housing, lack of jobs paying living wages, debt due to health costs and other household expenses, domestic violence, foreclosures.… read more »
Dec 19
Reports of death, rape allegation censored
As reports of patient beatings and deaths in state mental hospitals have mounted, the man charged with fixing the system has repeatedly pledged to increase transparency. But as Dempsey Benton nears the end of his time as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, his department is becoming…… read more »
Dec 16
State mental health system frayed
Sometimes they arrive by taxi from area hospitals with little more than an address — 400 E. Fifth Street — scribbled on a piece of paper. For those with no family, no money, no insurance and in most cases, a history of severe mental illness, the Catholic Action Center on Fifth Street is the only…… read more »
