HOMELESS BOOTED & RELOCATED IN THE DOTTE AMID WINTER STORM WATCH!!!

This story has been making the around amid activists via social media and it's about time our blog community considered it . . .

Here are the basics . . .

Cross-Lines Community Outreach operates the county's emergency shelter on frigid nights.

However, the organization said that on Tuesday, newly elected Mayor Tyrone Garner decided not to allow them to use the building at 5th Street and State Avenue as was originally planned.

This view might be unpopular but we understand the political calculation at play. 

Call it pecking order theory in practice.

As inflation rises and life becomes harder for the working-class . . . Generally, there's less sympathy for those further down the food chain.

Caveat . . . Poor people are some of the most generous folks you've met and most of them will give you the shirt off their back if you REALLY need it. 

However . . . 

The current homeless crisis is also a failure of politicos & activists to talk seriously about endemic drug abuse & mental health issues that can't be solved with a warm bed for a few nights. 

Voters understand this complexity even if mainstream & social media often gloss over the problem . . .

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link . . .

Wyandotte County will not make emergency shelter available for winter weather

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - People experiencing homelessness in Wyandotte County will have one less place to go if they need shelter during this weekend's winter story. Cross-Lines Community Outreach operates the county's emergency shelter on frigid nights.

UPDATE . . .

Unified Government board to open Reardon Center for emergency homeless shelter in KCK

KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV/AP) --- The Unified Government of Wyandotte County's Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to open up the former Jack Reardon Convention Center as an emergency weather shelter. The shelter will be opened for the homeless population beginning this weekend, when snow and arctic temperatures are expected.

Wyandotte County warming shelter will open despite initial pushback from new mayor

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Unified Government commissioners voted unanimously to keep an overnight warming shelter open for the homeless. The Unified Government called a special meeting Thursday after new Kansas City, Kansas, Mayor Tyrone Garner shut down plans for the shelter at the Reardon Center earlier this week - all ahead of bitterly cold weather and a snow storm expected this weekend.

Developing . . .