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Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil has washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities MUCUM, Brazil -- Flooding from a cyclone in southern Brazil washed away houses, trapped motorists in vehicles and swamped streets in several cities, killing at least 31 people and leaving 1,600 homeless , authorities said Wednesday. More than 60 cities have been battered by the storm since Monday night, and Rio Grande do Sul Gov. Eduardo Leite said the death toll was the state’s highest from a climate event. “The fly-over we just did, shows the dimension of an absolutely out of the ordinary event,” Leite said in a video posted on the state's social media accounts. “It wasn’t just riverside communities that were hit, but entire cities that were completely compromised.” Videos shot by rescue teams Tuesday and published by the online news site G1 had shown some families on the top of their houses pleading for help as rivers overflowed their banks. Som...

Since December the issue of Rhode Island children who are living outdoors or in unacceptable housing conditions, such as in cars or abandoned property, has posed a question that has no clear answer. Are homeless children neglected children? Do they present a “reportable” incident to agencies charged with protecting their welfare – and future? In 3 to 4 weeks, individuals and families now housed in temporary shelters will leave those shelters and the shelters will close. The safe haven will be gone. Professional contacts will fragment. Schools and day cares will close and change to summer schedules. Risk for children will raise exponentially. Of the 1,400 estimated people who are living homeless right now in Rhode Island, how many are under the age of 18? Over 600 unhoused people are in the Providence area, alone. Homeless advocates say that “homelessness in and of itself is not neglect”. They go on to say that if an appropriate living si...

Despite a crisis in homelessness and a desperate need for expanded mental health services, the state evicts a community agency by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer Photo by Richard Asinof The eviction letter sent to Community Care Alliance, asking them to vacate 181 Cumberland St. in Woonsocket. A professor of American musical blues and heart ache, Tom Waits, once penned a lyric that captured the inherent nature of American capitalism, in his song, “Step Right Up.” Step right up. Everyone’s winner. Bargains galore. The closing lines, after a humorous if not tragic journey through the jargon of advertising slogans and come-ons, captured the bathos of consumerism: “The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” That was the lyric ConvergenceRI found himself singing out loud after a source sent him the news that Community Care Alliance of Rhode Island, the nonprofit community agency headquartered in Woonsocket, had been no...