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Put our schools before tax breaks for corporations
At a time when classes are overflowing with children, school boards are canceling summer school and freezing the purchase of books and computers, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Republican leaders of the Florida Legislature have tentatively agreed on another $428-million dollars in tax breaks for corporations.

Editorials
The court's duty
The Florida Supreme Court should follow the attorney general's advice and send back the redistricting plan to the legislators for explanation.

Turkey -- the 'green' bird
Turkeys don't get enough respect. Their reward for being our symbol of Thanksgiving is that we eat them. As it turns out, turkeys -- actually, their manure -- could play a role in cleaning up the environment.

 

Columns today
John Romano
Hurry, hurry, hurry, Bucs, step right up
TAMPA -- Minicamp has ended. Training camp is three months away. In between, the Bucs have one important mission: try not to grow old.

Sara Fritz
Mental health bill is a dilemma
WASHINGTON -- Pity the poor HMO.

 

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.