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Compassion, Not Prisons, Key To Building Strong Community!
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The Denver Mayor has declared a state of emergency to address homelessness. Why don’t we do the same in Tennessee?
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When You Stop
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As you are striving to do the next best right thing within your life, there are many individuals out there that are against the actions that you are taking.
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Extra Terrestrial Baseball Hero Lands in Cincinnati
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Near the beginning of this year’s baseball season, Joey Votto, Canadian-born, long-time first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, made an unusual prediction on MLB’s official webpage. He wrote that on April 15, 14 games into the 2023 baseball season, extra terrestrials would arrive on Earth. He said it would take five months for us to learn to communicate and befriend them. He went on to say that play would resume in October and that the Reds would sweep the playoffs to become World Series Champs. When I text a friend of mine who was struggling with the torture of knee replacement surgery in Cincinnati this fanciful tale she replied, “Well, looking forward to friendly extra terrestrials will give me something to live for.
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What a wonderful day in the neighborhood!
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It was a beautiful spring Saturday in April and I could have been out working hard selling the paper. But my neighbor and customer had just given me a beautiful bike.
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Volunteer Spotlight on Annie Rees
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Contributor readers are you ready to meet our newest volunteer, Annie?
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Walking the Walk
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This year, I was fortunate enough to march in the Nashville Pride Parade with other members of The Contributor community!
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Public Notice: EBT/SNAP
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Your EBT/snap food stamp cards can be used at the downtown farmers market on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Let’s “Stigmatize” the Homeless
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Recently, a Fox News commentator, Jesse Watters, bloviated about the problem of homelessness in America. He said that the root cause was not the lack of affordable housing but that cities reward unhoused citizens by coddling and subsidizing their anti-social behavior. “It’s about drug addicts who want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk,” Watters continued. “You have to stigmatize it,” he said. “You can’t make them out to be some sort of cutting-edge heroes.