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January 31, 2002
Editorials
Enron and Cheney's energy plan
Even before the Enron scandal broke, the White House should have revealed the nature of the private discussions administration officials held with executives from Enron and other energy corporations in the course of formulating a new dig-and-drill national energy plan. Vice President Dick Cheney, who chaired the effort, is supposed to work for the American people, and the public deserves to know who met with him and what was discussed.
Less is more?
Offering health insurance with less coverage might attract some employers to cover their employees, but such coverage might not be good for the patient.
Letters
Black people need to take back their community
St. Petersburg City Council Chairwoman Rene Flowers, council member Ernest Williams, NAACP president Darryl Rouson and other black community leaders are to be commended for their efforts to assist the St. Petersburg Police Department in enforcing the law and cleaning up the city.
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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