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Yes on Miami-Dade home rule
Thanks to a county charter written into the state Constitution in 1957, voters throughout Florida are being drawn into a heated intramural fight in Miami-Dade County. The question is this: Should state lawmakers from Miami-Dade be able to ask county voters whether they want to change their charter?

Editorial
Felons' money still good
As the world learned two years ago, Florida makes it hard for ex-felons to vote. Too hard. They're banned for life, unless the governor and Cabinet act to restore their civil rights. The hoops are easier than they used to be, but Florida ought to do it the way most other states do: by making restoration automatic once one's debt to society is paid.

Editorial
The Times recommends
In preparing for the Nov. 5 elections, the Editorial Board has studied the candidates and the issues and has published detailed recommendations, which are available online at www.sptimes.com. Click on Campaign 2002. Here is a summary:

Letters
We can trust Gov. Bush to use our taxes wisely
Re: McBride for governor, Oct. 20.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Singing the digital blues -- very clearly
Iguess getting old is when you realize that just about one more "wave of the future" will swamp your dugout canoe.

Gary Shelton
Face of change
Lou Piniella boosts Rays' outlook and demeanor.

Susan Taylor Martin
Militants on run, Pakistan says
TAMPA -- Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Pakistan's rookie ambassador to the United States, may be new to the Washington scene but he's hardly a stranger to diplomatic hot spots.

 

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.