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Denver Salon Gives Free Haircuts to Homeless for Convention
CBS4 Denver reports Sly's Salon in Denver is providing free haircuts to the homeless in advance of the Democratic Convention. The effort was organized by Denver Human Services. It seems to be a first -- don't move the homeless, clean them up. That was the work of one salon and the recipients didn't even seem to care if the Democrats were coming to town. Sly's Salon at 17th and Grant was ...
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Haircuts for the homeless
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... approach: Free movie and museum passes and mass transit tickets. Denver police deny they are trying to hide the homeless: Where are we going to hide our homeless during the convention? The short answer: We don't hide the homeless -- ever," Denver police and homeless advocates said in Denver's newspaper written by the homeless. The city says it is encouraging the homeless to take part in the convention week activities for the public. via Talkleft

Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats
Top of the Ticket — ... about officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city's downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to the zoo and Museum of Nature and Science. Now, with a Hat Tip to our pal Jeralyn over at TalkLeft, comes word, as Sen. Barack Obama ...

From hiding the homeless in Denver to giving them haircuts
Sister Toldjah — ... wrote that officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city’s downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to the zoo and Museum of Nature and Science. Now, with a Hat Tip to our pal Jeralyn over at TalkLeft, comes word, as Sen. Barack Obama ...

DNC To The Homeless In Denver: Get A Free Haircut, You Bums
Pirate's Cove — ... The Ticket wrote that officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city’s downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to the zoo and Museum of Nature and Science. Now, with a Hat Tip to our pal Jeralyn over at TalkLeft, comes word, as Sen. Barack Obama ...

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Exclusive Photo: Denver offers Haircuts for the HomelessDoug Ross @ Journal
The LA Times reports that Denver’s homeless are getting free haircuts to look good for Obama and the Democratic National Convention (via LGF). According to Rick Sallinger of the CBS TV station, Denver Human Services has been handing out coupons for free homeless haircuts... The idea was to make the homeless feel better about themselves. And maybe then they’d get jobs or something. Rusty Johnson
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Denver officials spiff-up their homeless with free haircuts.
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For one short week, the city of Denver will have the best-coiffed homeless population in America: Denver’s homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his Democrats . According to Rick Sallinger of the CBS TV station, Denver Human Services has been handing out coupons for free homeless haircuts. The idea was to make the homeless feel better about themselves. And maybe ...
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A city agency is giving the homeless coupons for free haircuts. (via Playbook )
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Democrats in Denver figure why feed the homeless when you can give them stylish haircuts . When Sylvester and Ghandia Johnson saw news reports about homeless people being given vouchers to the zoo and the movies during the DNC, they didn't feel it was right. "We just kind of felt like in news reports lately it was like, 'What are we going to do with them,' trying to sweep them under the ...