If you’re a homeless man or woman here in Boulder with an interesting story to tell or insightful comment to make in re homelessness, I’ll consider publishing you here on my blog. Submit your story or comment in writing to me at this address: Max R. Weller c/o Boulder Shelter 4869 N. Broadway Boulder, CO 80304 Or [...]

Back on 3/23/2009 the DC print edition published a front page story entitled “Man proposes plan for homeless to clean up Boulder Creek Path” (also featured in the DC online), complete with photo of Jim Budd posing above Boulder Creek. The gist of his idea was that the City of Boulder should give RTD Eco [...]

The following comments by Doc_Brinkley first appeared on the DC Virtual Editorial Board, 3/19/2009: “I had a brief conversation with a staff member at the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless during breakfast there a few days ago. He remarked that donations of all kinds of food and beverage have really fallen off since the Christmas [...]

I think it’s appropriate here to repeat the comments made by Doc_Brinkley last Thanksgiving on the DC Virtual Editorial Board, in response to the question: What are you thankful for? “This homeless sojourner is thankful for the truly generous people I’ve met here in Boulder, who have freely given out of the goodness of their [...]

I realize that any appeal to reason in re affairs of the heart (or more accurately, affairs of the glands) is useless in most cases. Even so, when it comes to homeless men and women getting together I feel an obligation to point out their lack of common sense. As a homeless man, I’m not [...]

Kudos to those responsible at the Main Library here in Boulder for now requiring patrons who want to access the Internet to have an actual library card to do so. Previously, daily guest computer passes were offered; all too many of the worst unwashed and rude homeless people would use them to tie up the [...]

Overall, based on my experiences with homeless shelters as client or volunteer or employee, I’d rate BSH #1. Not perfect, but more nearly so than others. On the plus side for BSH: The facility located at 4869 N. Broadway is the finest of its kind anywhere in America (even free washers and dryers and a [...]

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs website Overview of Homelessness: “About one-third of the adult homeless population have served their country in the Armed Services. Current population estimates suggest that about 131,000 Veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the [...]

There are two basic types of so-called transitional living programs. One is a DOC-operated halfway house for parolees (sometimes run by a private organization under state contract). Obviously, the staff at a halfway house can’t pick and choose its clientele and must struggle in trying to get them back into the mode of productive citizens. [...]

Too many homeless people in Boulder and everywhere else (not including Rainbow Family members, who are in a class all their own) have horribly repugnant body odor. This is most revolting in the enclosed spaces of Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, Carriage House, and other homeless services venues. This makes no sense at all because [...]