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February 26, 2002
Editorials
Florida's toll enterprise
The Department of Transportation's plans to turn tolls into an enterprise offer a reckless and unfair approach to state road planning.
Bush's thoughtful message
Westerners report that anti-Americanism is spreading in China. Many people in the streets of Beijing and Shanghai still say U.S. forces deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999. Government leaders have done a good job of indoctrinating the country's citizens into believing the United States wants to keep China poor, weak and humiliated.
Letters
Weaknesses in airport security better left unsaid
Re: Florida airport security lacking, Feb. 23.
Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
This time, the last laugh's on poor Bubba
Bubba the Love Sponge's appearance in court Monday may have marked the first time Tampa's No. 1 radio slumlord kept his mouth shut and his head down. He looked like the Pillsbury doughboy in a suit, only much less cheerful. He hardly cracked a smile.
Jan Glidewell
Time to tune up life with festival of folk music
There aren't many things in my life around which I would vary the schedule of a honeymoon, but the Will McLean Music Festival, March 9 and 10, at the Sertoma Campgrounds near Dade City, is one of them.
Ernest Hooper
Musings on endorsements, new jobs and teddy bears
City Council member and mayoral candidate Bob Buckhorn has received the endorsement of 30 pastors, many of whom head up some of Tampa's largest predominantly black churches.
Elijah Gosier
If only numbers had human faces too
After several days of studying a page full of numbers called the "City of St. Petersburg Uniform Crime Report -- Drug Arrests 1998-2001 by District and Midtown Area," after performing all sorts of arithmetic, turning the paper in every direction to see if the numbers changed like speed limit signs at night, and ultimately folding it into an airplane, I reached a couple of insightful, radical conclusions.
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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