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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.
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Why Don’t you Drive?
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“The world is a much safer place since I don’t drive!” Why do I say that? Imagine the following scenarios:
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Life
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Wanted to finish my story about my two best friends, Cheddar and Cheesy. They’ve been wanting summer to come. Well, I believe it’s here. I’m June P. from Osborne Bi-Rite on Belmont and Gale Lane. Come see me and get a paper.
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The Love and Help of the Berry Hill Police Department
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The Berry Hill police department got to know me when I first got out to Berry Hill to sell papers by Pinnacle Bank.
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A response to “The Rise of Direct Aid” in‘The Contributor,’ Volume 17, #11, 05/24 – 06/7, 2023
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“Direct Aid” should be called compensation pay or reparations, depending on who you’re offering to.
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The Story of Little Blue
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The reason I have Little Blue is I’m not allowed to have a pet where I live at.
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A Walk… In My Shoes
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Basically, as I understand it, in a nutshell, it restricts our daily struggle even further and subjects the homeless community to increased criminalization.