Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible, he explains, without "your proper rest, a way to get clean and a place to store your clothes." But two months ago, Williams, 32, found an occupation that doesn't require any of the above: selling Street News, the new "motivational" monthly designed to help the homeless help themselves...
...take practically anybody," says Street News founder and editor in chief Hutchinson Persons, 33. Persons, a former rock musician, created the tabloid-size publication with borrowed money and donations so that homeless people could make money selling it instead of begging. Since Street News debuted four months ago, says Persons, nearly 1,000 homeless and near homeless men and women have sold more than 1 million copies in New York City. Beginning next month the paper will also be available in Philadelphia, the first of five additional cities where it is targeted for distribution by year...
...street crime and the plight of the homeless were not enough, New Yorkers now have something really big to worry about: Is Mario Cuomo going to hell? From his Albany County jail cell, where he had been serving ten days for taking part in a militant antiabortion protest, Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York recently warned that the state's Democratic Governor "is in danger of going to hell if he dies tonight" unless he changed his stance on abortion. Cuomo, a Roman Catholic, accepts his church's teaching that abortion is wrong. But he argues that it would...
...city's Lower East Side. Challenged by a student to practice the good works he preached, Ritter responded with a colorful act of muscular Christianity: he paid $50 to a couple of toughs to scare drug dealers into vacating their apartments. He used the space to house homeless children. Later he opened a shelter for runaways in a three-room hovel on East Seventh Street and solicited money to help the hundreds of teenagers who flocked to the shelter: drug addicts, prostitutes or simply abandoned, lonely adolescents with no place...
...hope what is going to happen is they will pass it, and them we will be getting an answer shortly and then have a followup with specific requests," said PBHA steering committee member Stephan J. Klasen '91, also a member of the homeless committee...