This is an effort to undermine the good works that are happening in the diocese. It's a bit mystifying for an organization that claims to know what's best for the church to go ahead with spending what I would imagine would be significant dollars in a media outlet such as Newsday.
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It is smart and sensible. It goes to the heart of the key problems Newsday identified in its story Sunday Coordination, training, and a need for more intensive services. It is impressive that the plan to hire new caseworkers doesn't just include investigators who decide whether to take a child out of a home -- it also bolsters a unit designed to help children safely remain in their homes.
Finn, in an interview with Newsday last winter, defended his contracts, saying he often paid for things himself. He said his program is proven and operates in 16 other school districts nationwide. The notion that I was making too much money ... well, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate and I'm nobody's dummy, ... I gave back to Hempstead a lot more than I got.
The house is, in fact, something of a shrine to the passion that has consumed Corrigan's life, from her literature-saturated childhood in Sunnyside through her current career as a teacher and critic (in addition to her NPR gig, she pens a column on mysteries for The Washington Post and reviews for other publications, including Newsday). As she confesses in the just-published Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading Finding and Losing Myself in Books ... When I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.