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FOOD STAMPS
Program Nets Over $600,000 in Bonuses
The D.C. Department of Human Services has received more than $600,000 in bonuses this year under the federal food stamp program, interim DHS director Kate Jesberg said yesterday.
The announcement came on the day that she retired. She led the Income Maintenance Administration, which administers food stamps and other programs for poor and low-income residents. The District received a $350,003 bonus for the timely processing of applications and $293,222 for customer service in the food stamp program.
-- Elissa Silverman
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
Chaplain Quits Amid Campus Ministry Woes
A minister with Georgetown University's Protestant chaplaincy, which has been in turmoil since ejecting several private evangelical ministry organizations last month, has quit saying he had problems with the way the program was being run.
The Rev. Derrick Harkins, a pastor at the historic Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, had also been a part-time minister at Georgetown.
Georgetown was criticized after rescinding the private groups' freedom to operate on campus, saying it wanted to control what spiritual programs Protestant students were offered.
Harkins said the Campus Ministry staff was now too small for its needs and that the decision to rescind was "very strong-handed."
