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ROPER: Data and Analysis? Not So Much

October 3, 2025 Rob Roper

State Auditor Doug Hoffer’s latest newsletter called out a remarkable statistic about Vermont’s homeless crisis. In less than a decade, we have spent over $800 million to “fix” homelessness. Nearly $100 million on the motel voucher program in 2023 alone. But that’s not the really remarkable part. The truly remarkable part is that, despite the influx of … Read more

MacDonald: About Those “Homeless Advocates” You Quote

July 28, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Fox 23 has a touching story about the concern among Maine’s homeless advocates after President Trump signed an order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the United States on a single … Read more

Solving The Biden/Harris Homelessness Mess

April 25, 2025 Steve MacDonald

A Colorado think tank has released a report on homelessness after four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and nine of the top ten states with the worst homelessness increases are Democrat-run States. The outlier is North Dakota, which might be due for a rebound in the right direction now that Mr. Trump has … Read more

Who Is Using the Motel Voucher Program?

March 27, 2025 Rob Roper

Governor Scott and the House and Senate Democrat majorities are at loggerheads over the motel voucher program that pays to put up homeless people in, well, motel rooms. The governor vetoed the budget adjustment bill over a $1.8 million spending increase for the program and is threatening to do so again if a revised version … Read more

Dems Blame Sununu for Joyce Craig and Joe Biden’s NH Homeless “Problem”

December 18, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A report dropped this week outlining a significant rise in homelessness across the state of New Hampshire. One outlet emphasized the percentage rise and how much greater it is than many other states but left out a lot of detail. MANCHESTER, N.H. (MyKeeneNow) Homelessness in New Hampshire surged by an unprecedented 52.1 percent in 2023, marking the … Read more

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Girls in Montpelier Sexually Harassed By Street People

December 12, 2024 Guy Page

Montpelier’s Progressive-minded City Council repealed a ban on panhandling in 2018 and refused requests to ban loitering in 2019. In 2021, it adopted a “general non-involvement approach” towards emergency (read: homeless) encampments, except for those located in ‘high-sensitivity areas.’ In 2023, former City Councilor and newly elected House member Conor Casey argued on behalf of homeless city residents … Read more

Who Is Making These Insane Decisions

May 25, 2023 Ray Cardello

There is no argument that some of our bigger cities that used to be vacation and destination spots are now crime and drug-ridden hellholes that are destinations for the homeless. These are places where residents and businesses are escaping as quickly as possible, and local and state governments are at a loss for ways to reverse the trends.

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Vermont Spends Hundreds of Millions – The Problem Got Worse

July 30, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Throwing money at problems that get worse might suggest to some that the problem isn’t money but not Democrats. First, it’s not their money, so why would that matter? Second, the cash enlarges government and state power which is why they spend it. What, you thought they cared?

Upper Valley Homeless Hopefuls: Twin Pines

July 11, 2022 Aaron Warner

The problem of homelessness in America is plaguing many of its cities. On the west coast from Los Angeles to Seattle, the problem is growing. The southwest has similar issues from Phoenix to Dallas. However, one city has seen a decline in their homeless since developing a coordinated system that is streamlining intake and services … Read more

Homelessness In The Upper Valley Part 1: Housing the Homeless in Hartford

July 9, 2022 Aaron Warner

Twin Pines housing has a proposal currently approved by the town Select Board for a homeless housing project it intends to put on the property of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church which lies adjacent to the Upper Valley Haven, both of which offer services to people in need and are partnering with Twin Pines on this … Read more

So why does the US suffer such “Homelessness”?

December 19, 2020 Skip

Research Fellow Christopher Rufo takes a little more than 12 minutes in a compelling vidumentary to dissect why the homelessness problem keeps getting worse even as officials spend increasing billions of tax dollars on illusory solutions, then points to the actual causes and how to make measurable progress. Genuine compassion begins with facing reality. Compassion … Read more

On Homelessness and Hypocrisy

November 20, 2020 Ed Mosca

So the burning issue in #nhpolitics today was Sununu cleaning up an illegal tent-city outside the courthouse in downtown Manchester: Joyce Craig was not the only Democrat hysterical about Sununu “evicting” (showing your bias again, Kevin Landrigan?) the homeless. There are myriad examples, but they essentially all say the same thing, so let’s look at … Read more

There are Different Kinds of ‘Human’ Waste

September 4, 2020
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Cases of human waste on San Francisco streets spiked to 31,000 in 2019. That’s an all-time high. The agency in charge of cleaning up the mess has a quarter-billion-dollar budget. $224 million is for personnel costs alone. Public works employ a staff of 1,790. This includes truck drivers at $218,495, arborists at $206,107, and general … Read more

Democrats Care More About Illegal Aliens Than…

February 15, 2020

Why do Democrats care more about illegal aliens than homeless Americans in the streets? That’s the Scot Presler question. Mr. Presler is the man who has been voluntarily cleaning up garbage accumulated in Democrat-run cities. He’s not drawing big crowds, but the question is still pretty poignant.

Bernie Goes for National Rent Control and More Federal Housing

Bernie is All-In on National Rent Control and More Federal Housing (Comrade!)

October 1, 2019September 30, 2019

Bernie has gone all in on the idea of national rent control and more federal housing. The next question is whether the rest of the socialist lemmings will follow him over the cliff? Bernie Sanders is again promising more free crap from the federal well.

Did Seattle Figure Out How To Remove Feces off the Sidewalks Without Appearing Racist?

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It is a long-held maxim of conservative bloggers – Let the left speak, and you will never be lacking for material. Am I right? Just ask Seattle, where, like San Francisco, they have a poop problem. Which resulted in a bigger problem? How to remove the feces without appearing racist.

“Freeattle” is Dying

March 21, 2019March 21, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Our interest in places like New Mexico, Washington State, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or California and New York, even college campuses are cautionary tales. These ‘laboratories’ of liberalism show us what Democrat’s expect and what their policies will do to New Hampshire and even America.

City Of Angels Officially a Third World Nation: Crime, Homelessness, Typhus Epidemic

February 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

For a primer on the promise of Democrat-run Big Government Socialism look west young paper-straw-using trans-man or trans-woman. Where liberal policies sowed deep into the hollowed-out heart of a once sparkling coastline, have borne poison fruit. To which we can add a growing Typhus epidemic.