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January 14, 2002
Editorials
Judge should be true to his word
No one really cares whether Robert Foster belongs to a male-only club whose principal civic contribution every year is for members to dress up as pirates in Tampa's free-for-all Gasparilla parade.
Disabilities Act is very specific
In 1990 Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. Not the Americans with Ailments, Infirmities or Discomforts Act. As enacted, the law was designed to give people who suffer from severe handicaps access to the job market if they otherwise could be productive employees. But in the years since its implementation the law has been stretched and strained in ways that Congress had clearly not intended.
Keeping good officers
St. Petersburg's Police Department has a heavy turnover. Many officers retire, but too many take law enforcement jobs elsewhere due to the department's low morale.
Letters
McKay's plan to reform taxes makes sense
Re: Tax battle joined, is headed for living rooms, Jan. 10.
Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.
Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.
Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.
Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.
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