Green Mountain Meandering Missives

Am wondering about, now that certain Vermont hotels and motels had exited unhoused guests from their properties to free up rooms for higher paying guests who were visiting the state to view the total solar eclipse, how many hotels and motels might opt to no longer participate in the hotel/motel program in order to rent rooms to tourists and the like for the Spring as well as coming Summer and Autumn seasons instead? Likewise, how many hotels  and motels might take unhoused guests back in until the end of June? Posed rhetorically, however, these are among the top concerns and questions that have been keeping up at night of late. Photo: Vermont State House in Springtime (taken by Morgan W. Brown;  Saturday, May 6, 2023).

Screenshot: New York Post news article headline (click onto image to view enlargement). Someone had recently sent me a link to an online news article, published within an out of state tabloid newspaper, with a blaring headline about how a “[h]omeless shooting suspect …” had been taken into custody after being accused of killing three of their family members in a neighboring state. These murders are, as with all murders, senseless and terrible as well as tragic to be sure. No argument there. None whatsoever. Yet, the headline for this particular news story got me thinking once again on a subject I have quietly thought about from time to time previously, including after having seen headlines and news stories numerous times over the years about someone living unhoused, aka living homeless, who had been accused of one criminal act or another, whether major or minor in nature, including some published in local as well as statewide newspapers and also featured on TV News here in Vermont How...