Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Homeless in Ann Arbor: The street view of a professional beggar
"'If you want to have any kind of spending money for tobacco, coffee, extra food, whatever, then you've got two choices,'  says Storm, who is homeless. 'You can either collect cans, which is really time consuming and doesn't pay off that well … so panhandling is kind of the way I make my money. And I don't really consider myself a panhandler. I'm a professional beggar.' "
Bomb undiscovered for weeks at Detroit federal building says union chief
The whistle-blower here is a union official for the unionized security officers employed there, so keep that in mind. Still though...