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Nancy Argenziano for Senate District 3

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Actions by U.S. threaten to hurt Security Council
Re: France's choice on Security Council, Oct. 18.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
A gorgeous streetcar -- but are we there yet?
I found myself Monday morning on Tampa's new streetcar with a woman from San Francisco, Susan Willms, who must have strange tastes. She could have been shopping and spending at International Plaza. She chose instead to ride the streetcar's first northbound trip on a regular business day, making observations that she planned to later tell her husband. He was here on business.

Elijah Gosier
Now what?
Your lease which expires on 11/30/02 will not be renewed and you must vacate your apartment no later than 12/31/02.

Ernest Hooper
Building's new life, voters' apathy
City Council member Bob Buckhorn will open discussion about revitalizing the old federal courthouse at Thursday's Tampa City Council meeting, and we can only hope his colleagues share his enthusiasm.

Jan Glidewell
Why police the polls? It's idiocy, not thuggery
Like many of our neighbors here in the tropics and subtropics, we Floridians are a simple people with a worldwide reputation for good drugs, bad elections and just a teeny bit of political corruption.

John Romano
Angels are calling on a child to lead them
SAN FRANCISCO -- They had no idea. Not a single clue.

 

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.