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No on Amendment 2
Ballot summary

Editorial
Dyer for attorney general
The attorney and state senator from Orlando has the legal expertise and political skills needed to build on Bob Butterworth's 16-year record.

Letters
City Council is maintaining airport's safety
Re: Don't rush a decision on airport, editorial, Oct. 11.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
Candidates tiptoe past $1-billion question
Florida is supposedly named for the Spanish la florida, or flower. How pretty. How quaint. How mistaken.

Ernest Hooper
Trusting in trolleys and a student's lucky foot
Sharon Dent always makes it a point to ride the streetcar when she goes to New Orleans or San Francisco.

Jan Glidewell
Signs steal the scene during local campaigns
Nothing makes you feel warmer and fuzzier about the political process than to see the people who want us to allow them to regulate our lives act like spoiled children in a playground squabble.

John Romano
Piniella? Here? Is this a trick question?
Just because Lou Piniella has decided he wants to leave Seattle does not mean the Rays do not still have decisions to make.


Elijah Gosier
Same old stories leave lasting scars
The pain in Ed White's voice rises above the anger. It is like a distant relative, arriving unexpectedly and refusing to leave. It is love hanging on with burned fingers.

 

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.