Last year, Channel 9's investigative team aired a series based on his sources. He decided to bypass the investigative apparatus and talk directly to the people that would know and care about what the agency was all about. The Spotlight was born. What's most interesting about this scandal sheet is the insight it provides into the institutional psyche of the 15,000-employee Housing Authority. In the Spotlight's pages, this massive bureaucracy, nationally recognized as the country's best public housing authority, is a poisonously paranoid place.
Morale is devastated by infighting.
Low-level corruption is rampant, and retaliatory transfers and demotions are constants. Although his prose tends toward the overwrought, this Matt Drudge of the Housing Authority has clearly hit a nerve. Employees report that higher-ups hang around the fax machines on Tuesdays, waiting to intercept it. Surreptitiously, his fans strike back. Every Tuesday you see women from other departments in our ladies' room.