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Adding to the abuse
State officials need to make comprehensive changes to correct a pattern of shoddy and rushed investigations of child-abuse cases in Florida.

Governor should veto billboard bill
According to rumor, asserted as fact by some political friends of the billboard lobby, Gov. Jeb Bush promised to sign legislation that would force local governments to pay dearly for signs they want taken down, no matter how ugly, numerous or out of place they might be. If so, it would be deplorable.

Letters
Privatizing social services is inherently wrong
Re: Privatized neglect, March 17.  

Columns today
Darrell Fry
If Alstott walks, all is not lost
TAMPA -- If you believe what's being whispered around town, they are sharpening the knives at One Buc Place, prepping for either a hefty cut in pay or in personnel, specifically No. 40. 

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.