Kathy Lally in buyout at Baltimore Sun

When e-mail to Kathy Lally with my August E-mail address list bounced, I asked if anyone knew is she had a new address. I got one reply that indicated she was on assignment with the Washington Post. A search on Google for :"“Kathy Lally"” brought up stories from an online media site called CityPaperOnline.

On August 11, the site reported on buyouts at the Baltimore Sun:

"So far, 18 employees have taken advantage of this summer's contract-buyout offer, including 32-year veteran cartoonist Mike Lane, whose work will be available on the Cagle Cartoon Web log site; education reporter Kathy Lally, who will reportedly be taking a temporary assignment with The Washington Post; and Perspective editor Jefferson Price, who will continue to pen his weekly Sunday column, according to Sun newsroom sources."

The web site had reported earlier:

"“on June 12, the Baltimore-Washington Guild and Sun management announced that they had reached an agreement to put into effect a "voluntary severance" program -- that is, they would offer up to a year's salary to some staffers who agreed to opt for early retirement. The paper's management said it hopes that 18 union members, in addition to some nonunion employees, accept the severance agreements. According to Michael Hill, a longtime Sun reporter and unit chair for the Guild, the union-management agreement was signed on Monday, June 14. Individual buyout agreements must be signed by affected staff members by June 25, he says, and there will be some provisions in place to make sure that older members of the paper's staff will not be forced out against their wills.
To read more, start at http://citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=8674