Maud Newton Via Twitter …

It doesn’t get any more succinct and to-the-point than writer Maud Newton’s Twitter feed on August 30: Nevada writer Rodger Jacobs is ill, can’t find work, may end up homeless. Tea Partiers rage in comments below his story http://bit.ly/anWQqt 8:40 AM Aug 30th via web Retweeted by 2 people Reply Retweet maudnewton Maud Newton

Celeste Fremon at Witness L.A. Covers the Story

I sent Celeste an e-mail and a link to the LV Sun article early this morning: Rodger Jacobs, a wonderfully erudite, warm and funny California writer, author and documentary producer is teetering on the edge of homelessness and is frightened of what life will hold if he falls off that edge—a possibility that, at the [...]

The New Homeless, Part One: Mini-Doc by Katie Euphrat

Part One of video journalist Katie Euphrat’s mini-doc on our plight, “The New Homeless”, is now screening at The Las Vegas Sun. Grab a bag of popcorn and enjoy …

The Afrika Korps at The Lamplighter

During the cab ride from Dr. Adjavanti’s office in Burbank to The Lamplighter restaurant in Chatsworth, Trace reclined in the wide back seat and pondered the sorry state of his and Lisa’s finances. After returning to Los Angeles from a disastrous 13-month exile in North Beach, San Francisco, Trace had hooked up with a documentary [...]

Bring Out Your Dead

It’s even getting too expensive to die. From the Las Vegas Sun: The number of Clark County residents who died too poor to pay for their own burials or cremations jumped by 22 percent in the past fiscal year — unprecedented growth that county officials say is yet another sign of the economic times. Clark County’s [...]