Previous coverage January 13, 2002 January 6, 2002 Martin Dyckman Updating Florida's tax structure The economic downturn has shown that Florida's tax structure, which relies too heavily on sales tax revenue, needs revamping. Adam C. Smith Nothing too audacious The once-activist Gov. Jeb Bush has decided on a modest agenda for the final legislative session of his first term. Editorials Courage in tax reform Florida needs tax reform and the only one who is showing political courage by offering a viable solution is Senate President John McKay. Readers tell it to Tallahassee Please protect the elderly As a very sick individual living in a nursing home on Medicaid, I'm frightened by the recent state budget cuts in health care. Martin Dyckman Hospital group endorses McKay's tax reform A 45-year-old woman with cancer and diabetes. Her husband works, but they have no health insurance. A woman, 42, whose husband left home after she was diagnosed with breast cancer requiring multiple surgeries. An 18-year-old student partially paralyzed in a motor accident.

Editorials
Ybor better off without project
Tampa City Council member Mary Alvarez, who's economical with words, didn't need many to describe a proposed mega-bar for historic Ybor City: "It's horrible," she told the Times. We are glad the mayor's office agreed. Last week, the administration filed an appeal to have the nightclub project killed.

Letters
Clear-thinking people may disagree
Re: The Sept. 11 attacks have left us behaving in un-American ways, by Bill Maxwell, Jan. 13.

Bill Maxwell
Doing for ourselves in the name of King
I do not claim to have been a friend of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Dyckman
Become Republican, we need moderates
TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Legislature is a place where many people lead lives of quiet desperation.

Philip Gailey
Angry Georgia senator is a pariah among his fellow Democrats
In a recent speech to the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Democrat Zell Miller recalled the day he took his seat in the U.S. Senate. A veteran senator took him aside and told the former two-term governor of Georgia he could expect to go through three stages in adjusting to Washington -- disbelief, anger and acceptance.

Robyn E. Blumner
Fair deportation is best for security
The announcement came and went with barely a notice and, beyond Arab-American and Muslim groups, barely a whimper of protest. The Immigration and Naturalization Service said even though a majority of the 314,000 immigrants who have skipped out on their deportation orders are from Latin America, the agency is going after men from certain Middle Eastern and Muslim countries first. Same goes for student visa violators.