Tale of Two Cities blog has an example of the local reporting that the Sun and the WPost can no longer do in Howard County -- if they ever could get this granular.
There are people soliciting donations at Dobbin Road and Rte 175. Wordbones figured out with some basic research that they're affiliated with a Tampa church that the Tampa Tribune investigated. Read Tale of Two Cities before you donate because this is a quote from the Tribune:
There are people soliciting donations at Dobbin Road and Rte 175. Wordbones figured out with some basic research that they're affiliated with a Tampa church that the Tampa Tribune investigated. Read Tale of Two Cities before you donate because this is a quote from the Tribune:
Yet while their followers live in poverty and beg for donations from those who would “help feed needy women and children,” the Jeffersons live in a 10,000-square-foot home in Brandon. Bishop Jefferson drives a Bentley Arnage, worth as much as $150,000. The couple wear tailor-made clothing and travel in a private jet.
Moreover, records show the bishop has bought a substantial amount of land for the church, spending $2 million on properties in Hillsborough County since 1992. Yet the church has a history of leaving debts unpaid."
I've also seen these people on the corner of Broken Land and Snowden.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing; I actually refuse to give to anyone who asks for money at an intersection. I refuse to support such an incredibly dangerous situation. I shop at MOM's and frequently pass through that intersection. A few weeks ago a girls' basketball team was out soliciting donations and a young teenage girl darted across a few lanes of traffic. Not that getting hit by a car would be such a small thing, but I shudder to think about all the big rigs passing through that intersection, often in a hurry.
ReplyDeleteoops, I am talking about the intersection of rt. 1 and 175 where I believe the group in the article has also solicited.
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