False Sense of Maturity

The people of Roosevelt, a community of 16,000 in New York, are having all sorts of problems due to do their high concentration of churches. There are now 68 of them in Roosevelt, and some of the people aren’t too happy:

This trend has produced concern among some community, business and political leaders that the concentration of churches is impeding business. Public officials say the situation leaves them in a quandary, acknowledging the right of churches to open here but lamenting the loss of potential tax revenue.

“It’s like a forbidden subject, but I wish to God I could find a way to stop churches from coming into this community,” said Wilhelmina Funderburke, chairwoman of the Roosevelt Community Revitalization Group, a nonprofit coalition of local organizations.

I wrote this as a joke about 20 years back…
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