People

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 01:54:55 -0000

I want first to contend that the representation of the original "Greenbush" as being composed of Italians, Jews, and African Americans leaves out all of my family who also lived and worked there, but were GERMAN. I grew up on the real east side of Madison, with U S Highway 51 just beyond our backyard, but knowing that the many Italian and German kids I grew up with were descended from families who lived down in "the bush." I would also question the reliability of some of the people interviewed in your story, because I can tell you that one of them still owes me $5 he borrowed for a cab ride in 1999. Always a bit of a derelict and drunk, and soft-spoken, that person was very good at selling a story that got them a few bucks. Looks like the individual hasn't moved on from where they were those many years ago. I "graduated" from life on "The Triangle," where I lived for nearly 20 years before finally finishing school at the UW-Madison, where I got three degrees and held a GPA of 4.0 in my major. I got an apartment there after a severe injury nearly killed me, and left me much less mentally than I had been before, and rebuilding my life was a major challenge. CDA's mismanagement of housing made everything harder in life than it might otherwise have been. The Triangle is a troubled spot, and one of its biggest challenges while I lived there was very poor management on the part of the city's Housing Operations Unit, AKA the "CDA." Residents of the 1990s will remember rent abatement for cockroach infestation. Resident representation on CDA's Board and Subcommittee was also tightly controlled by the very people those committees existed to supervise. I see yet again an "interim" person running a ship that seems persistently somewhat "lost at sea."