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The face of homelessness in cities around the country is changing. Families now represent the largest growing segment of our homeless population, and in South Carolina, each night one in five children falls asleep hungry. Homelessness does not discriminate. Several photographers and artists from the Lowcountry responded to an invitation from Crisis Ministries to use their cameras and their talents to provide a visual essay on just who are the women, men, and children caught in the web of homelessness. Charleston City Paper reprints some of these images.

Doug Ireland reports in LA Weekly that the new House minority leader carries heavy baggage of money and special interests. Although she's broken the glass-ceiling as the first woman to lead a U.S. legislative party, "she's never been known as a policy innovator and has only a slim record of legislative accomplishment," he writes. In a time when the Democratic Party needs a strong, consistent message, Pelosi is "capable of convenient political pirouettes," he concludes.