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Interim Police Chief Tim Bellamy has announced a return to permanent shifts for patrol officers in the Greensboro Police Department. Officers have been on a rotating shift schedule for the past three years. GPD moved to permanent shifts in the 1990’s, but former Chief David Wray implemented rotating shifts in January 2004 — a change that was met with opposition at the time and has continued to be a problem for the department.

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In Los Angeles, homeless capital of America, (yes, a dubious honor, indeed), they pay homeless people to count other homeless people during the yearly Point in Time Count. Author (How To Increase Homelessness) and advocate Joel John Roberts asks, “Is Using Homeless People To Count The Homeless Effective?”

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“The days are numbered for all rescue missions, the paradigm of christian service has changed a lot over the past 50 years, it’s the dawning of a new age, a better age, where christians actually get involved in the lives of others, instead of just writing a check to someone else to do their ministry for them.”

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Twenty years ago, 100% of Triad Health Project’s clients were white, male homosexuals. Times have changed.

Today’s THP clients:

• 62% male; 38% female
• 78% black; 18% white; 4% other
• 56% hetero; 28% men having sex with men; 13% IV drug users; 3% other

Read more on The Face of HIV/AIDS in the Triad…

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My son and I just noticed that they’re playing Jesus music on Scrubs. Wow…

All The Words by KUTLESS

How do I speak of the indescribable to You?
I will try to explain these feelings that are trure
So looking to the sky I will sing and from my heart to You I bring

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fear
makes you relieved when you return
to your own home
on your own side of town
away from them
who cause your fear

fear
means you see everything about them
that’s different from you
and nothing that is the same

Read more on to those who live (& write & speak) in fear… may you be free…

Reading this post made me want to weep… and throw up:

“The reelected Governor of Tennessee is having his inauguration as I write this. I can see the proceedings from the 3rd floor of this library. Just a few minutes ago, the prayer service for the Governor let out. It was held at my church, Downtown Presbyterian Church.

Read more on Homeless Church Member Humiliated At Prayer Service For Tennessee Governor’s Inauguration…

“Downtown Los Angeles is the epicenter of the largest homeless population in the United States. The Downtown Los Angeles Homeless Map takes raw data about those sleeping on the streets and transforms it into a visual tool for understanding the situation.”

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A new study published by the National Alliance to End Homelessness reports that 744,313 Americans experienced homelessness in 2005. The numbers were compiled from local point-in-time counts of the homeless done all over the nation during 2005 for the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Acknowledging the difficulties in counting homeless people, NAEH says that “the counts included in this report are not perfect and have numerous limitations, but they are the best data available at this time.”

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