CARE Court is Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature program to address California’s homeless crisis. But there is another name that sometimes comes up when talking about the issue: Million Dollar Murray.
Murray Barr was the subject of a 2006 The New Yorker magazine article. Malcolm Gladwell wrote that the alcoholic ex-Marine living on the streets of Reno may have accumulated more unpaid medical debt than any other person in Nevada before he died from his addiction. Police officers…