Brenda Donald is executive director of the D.C. Housing Authority.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s assessment report of the D.C. Housing Authority was not pretty, nor were the findings unexpected. The report came after an on-site review of the DCHA this year.
The report details the cumulative effect of problems from years of management neglect across many departments within the agency. This agency’s numerous problems didn’t materialize overnight. Read More...
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The mandolin was available, so I grabbed it. Beth Cook strummed the Dobro, and her father, Glenn Reep, plucked on a banjo. Two other members of the Cook family, husband Chris and teenage daughter Emily, filled out the sound on guitar and fiddle.
My new bandmates and I had connected at Common Threads, a corner hangout of sorts at the shiny new Earl Scruggs Center in the small city of Shelby, N. Read More...