The paper may have gone weekly, but the Trib's coverage of homeless issues is improving. Perhaps all the reporters over there are getting a taste of what it might be like to live without an income...

“A lot of people recognize it as a civil rights issue. While it’s true that the laws impact homeless folks right now, they’re relevant to everybody. It has a significant impact on people no matter who you are. I think on a human level people will connect with that.”

“This is social cleansing, plain and simple,” Flowers said Monday. “These are economic apartheid policies which criminalize an entire class of people."