Don’t Deanna Isaacs and the Reader have a journalistic obligation to verify facts rather than act as an unfiltered conduit for unsubstantiated accusations? If Deanna had checked with the Illinois Arts Council or other Acme members she would have heard a much different story. The two recent articles [December 31 and January 7] give a one-sided story.
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The flooding [at the Acme Artists’ Community] is worse because certain members of the Acme condo association have been blocking [Near Northwest Arts Council] and its contractors from making plumbing repairs to the complex since August. The Acme Artists condo association has refused to hire a professional property management yet continues to blame NNWAC for maintenance issues.
It’s David Hernandez who has a debt to NNWAC; it’s he who has raised ingratitude to the level of art. As long as his complaining gets him more press than his poetry, and the Reader plays along, we will hear no end to his troubles.
In the 11 months since I first wrote about the Acme Artists’ Community I’ve talked with at least a dozen people who live there. I spoke with NNWAC’s executive director, board chairman, and another board member before writing in January about the request by Hernandez, Ramirez, and Padilla to see NNWAC grant applications that might have used their names. My article included the comments of the executive director and chairman.
