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Editorial: Byrd's demagoguery
State House Speaker Johnnie Byrd's attack on an imaginary Senate conspiracy is a familiar tactic that plays the people of Florida for fools.

Editorial: Inheriting the public trust
Buddy Johnson, the man Gov. Jeb Bush selected to take over as Hillsborough County elections supervisor, has his work cut out for him. He has less than four weeks to prepare for city elections in Tampa. He must train poll workers, win the confidence of the staff and show a rightly skeptical public he has the gravitas for the job.

Letters: The president is wise to reveal little about Iraq
Re: Indicting Iraq, editorial, Jan 30.

 

Columns today
Robert Trigaux: Bay area hits biotech bump in the road
Tampa Bay's fast-lane rush to fire up a regional biotech industry just hit a pricey speed bump. The University of South Florida's competitive bid to nab $10-million of a $30-million pool of state money for a "center of excellence" in bioengineering and life sciences in Tampa did not make the final cut.

Jan Glidewell: Politician's phone idea deserves to be cut off
If Florida House Speaker Johnny Byrd gets his way, taxpayers in the state that can't find its dependent children, can't pay its school teachers a living wage and thinks mass transit is a minibus service connecting malls and a few nursing homes will start spending money on telemarketing calls to tell us all what a great job the legislature is doing.

 

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.