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New York Slush Funds
The three men who run New York's state government have stuck state taxpayers with more than $1 billion in debt over the last seven years for a series of secretive slush funds under their tight control. State leaders use the money to reward political friends and punish enemies. They use the money to keep rank-and-file legislators obedient. The stories show many examples of millions spent on failed or dubious projects.
Tags: taxpayers; Gov. George Pataki; Sheldon Silver; Joseph Bruno; New York City Catholic art museum; debt; Empire State Development Corp.; State of New York; New York taxpayers; Carnegie Hall; National Baseball Hall of Fame; Carrier Dome; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Centers for Excellence; Empire Opportunity Fund; Junior Museum; capital-improvement programs; Community Enhancement Facilities Assistance Program; Strategic Investment Program; Senate Majority leader; borrowing money; legislators; public money; Kraft Foods; Guardian Industries; Canadian American Transportation Systems; Division of Human Rights; National Museum of Catholic Art and History; New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad; Dormitory Authority; IRS; Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum; Bard College; YMCA; New York's Public Officers Law; Central New York Regional Market; campaign donations; borrowed-money grants
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The Sacred & the Profane
The Riverfront Times finds that "Father Lawrence Biondi is praised for revamping the campus of St. Louis University and boosting its endowment. But the enemies he's made along the way claim that behind the fountains, statues and donations stands a Jesuit bully who's more interested in the material than the spiritual.
Tags: St. Louis University; colleges; Catholic colleges; Jesuit; endowments
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Bob Smith saved an abandoned inner-city high school. Dropout rates fell, grades improved, more kids moved on to college-and then came the inquisition. The American Spectator investigates how the state of Wisconsin first encouraged principal Smith to apply for his school, Messmer High School, to participate in Milwaukee's school voucher system and then revoked the school's eligibility claiming the Messmer High School was a Catholic, religiously-affiliated school. (March 1996)
Tags: McGroarty Education Parent Choice Religion Separation of church and state 5 pgs.
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The Nation recounts how the Catholic Church, the justice system and a college's privacy regulations protected a wayward priest who sexually abused teenage boys; the priest's move to New York City and his position at the College of Staten Island allowed him access to other young people, Nov. 8, 1993. # NY Wiener child pornography
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