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Don't dip into preservation money
Under Republican Gov. Bob Martinez, the state sold revenue bonds for Preservation 2000, a groundbreaking, 10-year, $3-billion program designed to buy and protect sensitive land. At the time, Floridians and investors were promised that those funds would go for environmental conservation. But legislators, facing a tight budget this year, are planning to put their sticky paws on some of the money and have already earmarked $100-million of P2000 reserve funds to be diverted to pay for general state expenditures.

Indefensible tax cut
With the sorry state of education and aid for the medically needy, legislators shouldn't make tax cuts for corporations a priority.

Letters
Security requires proper ID to get a driver's license
Re: Immigrants in license-security bind, April 25.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
There are worse things than being 5 hours early
A year ago I was reviled, persecuted and spitefully used by my fiancee (now my wife) and a friend of ours who thought I was overcautious about getting to the airport on time.

Gary Shelton
I guarantee this will be a great column
Say this for your essential athletes. In the key moment, in the big game, when the pressure is on, they figure out what to do.

Elijah Gosier
Robberies net little, cost much
The cryptic greeting meets the woman before the door closes behind her.

 

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.