City of Knoxville
Bill Haslam, Mayor
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Panhandling MetroPulse

April 17, 2008 – 3:40 pm

Michael Haynes’s The One Year Plan to End Panhandling is in this week’s MetroPulse.
Haynes acknowledges that panhandlers and homeless people are not necessarily the same. That’s true. He also concludes that if you give money to panhandlers, then you’re keeping the institution of panhandling happy and growing. Which is not something anybody but panhandlers wants [...]

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Mayor promotes Ten-Year Plan

December 13, 2007 – 11:15 am

This week’s edition of MetroPulse contains an excellent interview with Mayor Bill Haslam.
The Mayor mentions Knoxville & Knox County’s Ten-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness in a couple of places in the interview, and we think that’s fantastic. Without strong support from its executive, no city’s Ten-Year Plan will be successful.
Obviously, our Ten-Year Plan [...]

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