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February 11, 2002
Editorials
Feeney's bright idea
Under House Speaker Tom Feeney's newest plan, Bright Futures scholars will be rewarded for testing out of basic classes not with a better education but a shorter one.
Easterling's political junk mail
For someone who tries to paint herself as a fiscal conservative, Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacey Easterling spends a lot of taxpayer money to send out self-serving political junk mail.
Obligated to aid New York
Soon after the World Trade Center towers were brought down by two hijacked airliners, President Bush promised $20-billion to help New York rebuild, and Congress quickly gave its approval. But when the president submitted his budget recently, he failed to allocate even a dollar for that purpose.
Diane Roberts
Pass this test if you want to live in Florida
Applicants for U.S. citizenship have to sit through an examination on our nation's origins, ideals and laws. So why not make people wanting to move to Florida demonstrate some knowledge of Florida's literature, environment, geography and history?
Letters
Arafat's words do not match his actions
Re: The Palestinian vision of peace.
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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