Subject: Homelessness

• Omar in Qatar

  Last year Omar Chatriwala moved from Austin, Texas to Orange County to help get Squeeze OC off the ground. Recently he decided to move again, this time from Orange County to Qatar to help get Al Jazeera's English-language channel off the ground. Chatriwala's blog, OC in OC, is among the most popular blogs on the SqueezeOC website, of which he was an editor. He has traveled from Austin's city limits to the middle of the Middle East with a brief layover behind the Orange Curtain, all for the sake

  November 22, 2006

• Down in the Dumps

  The LA City Attorney's office moved quickly to clarify the story that appeared in the print version of the Daily Journal, a legal newspaper, about a schizophrenic man who had been driven 40 miles from College Hospital in Costa Mesa and then mysteriously "dumped" near the Union Rescue Mission on skid row in downtown LA. The story suggested that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo was investigating the incident as an incident of homeless-patient dumping, but spokesperson Nick Velasquez told the Weekl

  May 7, 2008

• There's Something About Pacific Health

  Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospitals dumping homeless patients on the streets. The results of that investigation exploded yesterday with the federal raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in Los Angeles for alle

  August 7, 2008

• ACLU Sues Laguna Beach for Giving Homeless the Boot

  The ACLU filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against the city of Laguna Beach for its "unlawful and inhumane policy of harassing and intimidating disabled homeless people." The suit alleges that the city's prolonged arrests of its small, disabled homeless population under the guise of an anti-sleeping ordinance is "blatantly unconstitutional" and criminalizes an otherwise helpless disabled population. Erwin Chemerinsky, chair of UC Irvine's law school, is acting as co-counsel.According t

  December 23, 2008

• Something Smells at the Chance's Theater's 'The Giant and the Pixie'—But It's Not the Blood of an Englishman

  December 4, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Does Only Bart Simpson Say '¡Ay, Caramba!'?

  April 9, 2009

• Go for Broke

  January 15, 2009

• Happy Homeless Christmas

  December 14, 2000

• New Orange County Homelessness Benefit CD Provides Some Shelter From the Storm

  August 14, 2008

• [Hey, You!] A Ticket for Your Thoughtfulness

  March 20, 2008

• Hey, You!

  Bag Lunch

  November 29, 2007

• High Cost of Freedom

  November 8, 2001

• 'Jesus, Remeber Me?'

  April 11, 2002

• The Force Is With Him

  November 28, 2002

• Hey, You!

  Beemer Schemer

  March 29, 2007

• Eviction Blues

  Homeless musician vows crusade against landlords

  February 8, 2007

• First Person

  January 12, 2006

• Politics

  January 12, 2006

• Wiley Coyote

  November 10, 2005

• See MirrorMask, Help the Hungry

  October 6, 2005

• Bare, Ruined Choirs

  April 21, 2005

• Days of Whines and Runny Noses

  April 14, 2005

• Bare, Ruined Choirs

  April 7, 2005

• You Cant Count On Me

  February 3, 2005

• The Frugal Gourmet

  January 13, 2005

• Peter Torres, City Council District 9

  December 16, 2004

• Burning Mad

  August 12, 2004

• Diary Of A Mad County

  July 29, 2004

• Green No More

  February 19, 2004

• The Plight of Dwight

  November 6, 2003

• Food Not Bombs

  July 5, 2001

• Not Hot, Not Cold, Just Real

  March 15, 2001

• In the Name of the Father

  December 28, 2000

• Running With Scissors

  September 28, 2000

• Eek! A Female Of Mice and Men

  February 3, 2000

• Lock Our Asses Up!

  May 27, 1999

• How to live on the streets

  December 3, 1998

• Letters

  September 3, 1998

• Dinner with Dave

  May 28, 2009

• Laguna Beach Settles Lawsuit Over Homeless Ordinance

  Laguna Beach agreed today to settle a lawsuit over the city's treatment of disabled homeless people, according to the ACLU of Southern California.   "Under the agreement, the city's police officers will not cite, arrest or harass people under state law simply for sleeping in public places, as long as there are no reasonable public health or safety concerns," states a just-released media advisory from the civil rights group. "The agreement also establishes a process for sealing, expungi

  June 25, 2009

• OC Cities Fail to Crack 10 Meanest List, Must Try Harder

  Photo by HulagwayBoxed in.No Orange County cities cracked the top 10 Meanest Cities list included in a report released today by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless. But Laguna Beach, Santa Ana (by way of Dana Point) and just-beyond-our-reach Long Beach were singled out for giving it a good try.According to "Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities," which researches laws and practices in 273 cities acros

  July 14, 2009

• Crime Time: F-Bombers, Tiki Takers, Beatles Fans, Creepy Molesters and Tawny Kitaen on the Loose

  FACES OF TAWNY Actress, ex-Anaheim Angel wife, car hood buffer, supposedly reformed druggie and all-around hot mess Tawny Kitaen is shown on a February 2004 Weekly sex issue cover (left); in a booking photo from her April 2002 assault on then husband Chuck Finley in Newport Beach (top right); and writhing in the famous Whitesnake video of 1987. See her latest brush with the law under Saturday, Sept. 26.​It's the Weekly's weekly round-up of local police calls--now with more Tawny Kitaen arrests

  September 29, 2009

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  ​How tough are the times? People are not just holding up Taco Bells, they're now seeking refuge in their recycling bins. From Northern California:A homeless man sleeping in a restaurant recycling bin was nearly killed when the container was emptied into an Allied Waste Management truck for compacting, police said.The man, who has not been identified, was in a large recycling bin full of cardboard boxes behind Taco Bell at 34525 Alvarado Niles Road early Monday. He and the boxes on which he was

  October 25, 2009