Providing a safe, secure roof overhead immediately, then addressing other social service needs, is the most humane response to the needs of both our clients and the unhoused whose struggles play out in our cities’ streets. It is also the most effective response, as Housing First’s success in venues from Houston to Helsinki shows. Housing First sharply reduces the number of people who are unhoused and cuts the high cost of government interventions connected to homelessness.....MORE
COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are climbing heading into the fall, and although free testing isn’t as widely accessible as it once was, low- or no-cost tests may still be available.
The government’s program that mailed free tests through COVIDtests.gov has been suspended and as of June 1 is no longer accepting orders.
On Thursday, an Air Force veteran confronted the governor about whether his policies, which are stuffed with racial animosity, along with very loose gun laws, set up an environment where the race-based shooting in Jacksonville was inevitable.....MORE
Uber announced a new product Friday that will allow teenagers in Tampa to create their own specialized accounts. According to the ride-sharing company, the program will allow parents and guardians to invite their teens ages 13-17 to make a specialized Uber account that will allow the teens to request their own rides and order food with parental supervision built in.
The cruelty was always the point, and the warnings about abortion restrictions have been proven true.
When the Supreme Court ruled — as the then-president had promised he would appoint justices to do — that the half-century precedent of Roe v. Wade was not to be upheld, doctors, legal experts, and reproductive rights advocates warned that this would not only hurt people seeking to end pregnancies but also those who wanted to carry a pregnancy safely to term.