Sunday Morning Coming Down

The Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Board has more than a few problems. It doesn't look like it was doing its various jobs: Determine the organization's mission and purpose. ... Select the chief executive. ... Provide proper financial oversight. ... Ensure adequate resources. ... Ensure legal and ethical integrity and maintain accountability. ... Ensure effective organizational planning. ... Recruit and orient new board members and assess board performance. According to reports from Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald:  In documents filed late Thursday with the Florida House, a former board member of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence alleges that former CEO Tiffany Carr worked aggressively to shield details of her salary from disclosure. Lorna Taylor, the only recent member of the board who did not have a financial relationship with the coalition that manages $52 million of state and federal grant money, says in the sworn affidavit th...

Tiffany Carr was the CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.  Ironically she "worked remotely" from North Carolina.  Over the last three years she was paid about $7.5 million dollars in compensation to oversee an agency that receives about $52 million dollars in state and federal dollars annually. The Miami Herald started investigating and wrote a story about a salary of $761,000. "Tiffany Carr runs the state’s top domestic violence organization, a nonprofit that uses public money  state and federal to finance shelters and other essential services. And she makes a good living. How good? In a June 30, 2017 report, the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence disclosed she is paid $761,560 annually, a salary that is approved by its board. She hit that mark after receiving pay raises totaling $313,475 over a two-year period." ...

Newspapers have been important personally and nationally.  I've worked for newspapers and read them avidly. Lately, folks I talk to complain about the paper they read shrinking and still having to pay a lot for the hard copy of the "news".  The number of hard print subscribers has shrunk and is continuing to shrink in big towns like Chicago and even the statewide newspapers that report on what is happening in the state capital. In 1987 the paid circulation of newspapers in the U.S. was 62.82 million papers.  In 2018 the paid circulation in the U.S. had dropped to 28.62 million papers according to Amy Watson of Statista. Now for the last two weekends the print edition of the Miami Herald has not been delivered.  My upstairs neighbor and I used to get the paper delivered to the front door (upstairs) she seven days a week and me on the weekends.  I found her paper outside in the parking area of our building on Sunday, mine was missing or stolen.  When th...