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It's a new week here in Pittsfield which means the City's 2021 Street Improvement Project continues with more roadwork and even sidewalk work scheduled.

With joe ruben who served in the state department under president obama. gary, i want to start with you on all of this. it was quite striking, i should point out, just two days ago, you wrote a fascinating op-ed on the home page of the haitian times. you wrote about gangs running rampant in the country of haiti. you mentioned this, and this is line that stood out for me. you said, there has been a rash of kidnappings that continues unabated, churches, homes, sidewalks. nothing is off-limits. so ...

Designed to treat the mentally ill. like the guy who murdered the nurse. but wheres the proof that the program actually did anything? the money disappeared faster than brian stelter at doughnut factory. if you dont get carjacked first, you will see countless, destitute zombies. its hard to investigate the person in charge of helping them when it is the mayors wife. so what do you do when you are supposed to treat the sick and deranged and you havent done squat? and the people you are supposed to...

A night near the Hollywood Walk of Fame would change a woman’s life, as she was getting out of her car and a homeless man sprinted across Hollywood Boulevard...

Walking conditions, sidewalks, traffic, they want to know it all.

Walking conditions, sidewalks, traffic, they want to know it all.

Coziness between these hotels and the politicians. they are full and getting the full price i bet. >> all the usual rules of the quality of light stuff, the broken windows. none of that stuff matters right now because once you stop enforcing senator bennet, there are mad max style drag races with all the legal vehicles and actually look like they are from mad max. atvs with spikes on the side. >> greg: ive seen on a sidewalk when they are up sidewalks. >> that was me. you should have gotten out ...

Construction on 10th Street was the perfect time for the city of Holland to expand their snowmelt system. It's a trend from the '80s that actually stuck.

Were literally pushing them out several weeks. >> theyre literally begging to get in and be seen as quickly as possible. >> our park hill health center in denver has seen a 520% increase in texas patients comparing august to september. >> 520%. >> theres something fundamentally wrong with forcing people to leave their home communities to get healthcare. >> and let me just add this. amy hagstrom miller added the staff are being surveilled constantly from the protesters on our sidewalks to fake pa...

Or $580,000 per unit. part of an expensive push to get the homeless off of sidewalks and out of city parks and into government-subsidized housing. even if it means buying new buildings from developers. >> affordable, deeply affordable permanent housing is the solution but it takes too long to build. so in the meantime, why should we let vulnerable people, especially women, seniors, live on the streets? >> some seattle policies may be contributing to homelessness. tenants are having a harder time...