I don't think it's appropriate. I don't think it helps the situation. |
I think the idea of an ombudsman here is a good one. But that would have to come from a higher place than mine. |
I want to confront ... acknowledge that there were some people interested in the guild. If what underlies that interest were concerns about policies that I had, then I wanted to talk about them. |
In both cases, you have these islands of trouble surrounded by seas of prosperity. The only way for either city, I think, to be pulled out of its problems is to be able to tap into the energy around it. |
That is one of the unfortunate realities of being in a business where you put words on paper, then put them on a truck to be delivered hours later. |
The idea was that you had this kind of slow take-off pattern, that you could be the unknown, the Jimmy Carter, the Jimmy who in 1976 showed up in Iowa, carrying your own suitcases and do well there, and get a little money and go on to New Hampshire and do well there and get a little more money and you kind of go up the stairs. |
This single act, for which she has expressed genuine remorse, did not occur in the course of her duties or responsibilities as a journalist. As a result, this isn't an issue in which The Miami Herald needs to become involved. |