"In March, I wrote about the toxic war between Tennessee's largest newspaper, The Tennessean, and the Tennessee Department of Children's Services....
"Well, it seems the opposite is now happening in Colorado, where a series by The Denver Post appears to be moving public officials in the right direction....
"It's particularly interesting that the approach on the part of the Post hasn't been to try and demonize or blame individuals.... "Colorado has found at least 139 ways to improve the state's troubled child welfare system in the last six years," the paper reported, "from better training for caseworkers to more oversight of the 64 counties that each interpret state policy their own way."
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