Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

of a long-time neighborhood champion.

I waited until the second round of questions, my fingers resting on my silver watch casing.

“Councilman, the March ninth ledger for the South Park affordable housing development shows an eighty-thousand-dollar gap,” I said, my voice steady despite the dry heat in the room. “The public records request we submitted continue reading …