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Perspective: June 30, 2002
June 30, 2002
Editorial
Beyond vouchers
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on school vouchers should allow us to move the debate on to the more important issue of how to best educate America's children, especially the poor ones.
Editorial
Making Tampa more responsive
One important job that awaits Tampa's next mayor is improving the level of service by city departments. Some offices work well -- the water department and the city attorney -- while others, notably parks and solid waste, have a history of being unresponsive to the public. Tampa is not unique when it comes to weaknesses in a city bureaucracy. But poor service creates an image problem, and it feeds the perception that some neighborhoods are more important to the city than others.
Letters
Clean Power Act has consequences
Re: Florida can't be far behind to suffer from global warming, June 23.
Philip Gailey
Jewish voters noticing GOP's pro-Israel moves
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is beginning to spill over into U.S. politics, with Republicans gaining favor among Jewish voters, long a liberal constituency of the Democratic Party. Even before President Bush called for Yasser Arafat's political head last week, leading congressional Democrats were concerned that Jewish voters and donors were reassessing their relationship with the GOP.
Martin Dyckman
Refusing to see injustice
TALLAHASSEE -- This may come as news to Sen. Locke Burt, a legislator who is running for attorney general, but people whose criminal convictions are overturned are just as innocent, in every legal sense, as he is.
Bill Maxwell
Let's do more to help the poor get a college education
Congress heard a warning last week that if the federal government and the states do not increase need-based grants, millions of qualified students will be denied a college education during the next decade.
Robyn E. Blumner
Fighting government land grabs
To my mind, the three worst things the government can do to you are: 1) take away your children, 2) take away your liberty, 3) take away your home or business.
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