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March 2, 2002
Editorials
Murky business
The war against terrorism is being expanded to other countries, but instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan is still our most pressing challenge.
O, where art thou on the radio?
You probably haven't heard any of the excellent songs from the Grammy Awards' album of the year on your favorite commercial radio station. And you fans of what passes for country music today probably haven't heard the best country album, best male country vocal performance or best country collaboration on your favorite commercial country station.
Letters
Proposal seeks a turnpike more like a business
Your Feb. 26 editorial Florida's toll enterprise presents your readers with misleading and inaccurate information that leaves a false impression about the Florida Department of Transportation's proposal to convert the Turnpike District into the Florida Turnpike Enterprise.
Columns today
Behind the facade of the cultural arts district
It has been almost a year and a half since that first heady meeting in the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center when we brainstormed about the cultural arts district downtown. It was a big, buzzing crowd, and while a lot of people were there with their hands out, a lot of people were there because they love downtowns and they love cities, and they want Tampa to be more lovable. Or, at least more likable.
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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