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Perspective: February 16, 2003
February 16, 2003
For a better Florida
THE BUDGET: The governor and legislature, who promised not to raise taxes, are depending on the sales tax revenue to pay for the huge bills coming next year.
BUSH: Can the governor's cutting-edge conservatism survive a budget crisis and his own divided party?
Community-based care to protect children doesn't come cheap
A caseworker fails to check on the home, and a foster child pays the price.
How Florida fares
Asked why their states avoid taxing services, legislators from coast to coast respond with a single word: Florida.
Column: Tampa mayoral race rests on candidates' strengths and baggage
There are two ways to explain why, this late in the race, Tampa's mayoral election is still up for grabs.
Editorial: A vindictive drug war
Ed Rosenthal, the author of numerous books on marijuana, is being used as a scapegoat in Attorney General John Ashcroft's latest attack on the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. On Jan. 31, Rosenthal was convicted on three federal counts of cultivation and conspiracy, charges that carry a minimum five-year sentence. He had been raising marijuana plants to distribute to sick people in the San Francisco Bay area whose doctors recommended the drug as a way to ease their pain and other symptoms.
Editorial: From watchdog to lapdog
Petroleum storage sites at the Port of Tampa have been polluting Tampa Bay since 1996. When it rains, heavy metals including arsenic, lead and mercury flow into the bay from the sites used by ChevronTexaco, Murphy Oil, Marathon Oil and others. It happened again last summer, and there is no end in sight.
Editorial: The 'race-neutral' myth
A Harvard study shows that Gov. Bush's One Florida plan uses race-conscious policies to promote more diverse student bodies at state universities.
Letters:
Earth is challenging enough for us
Re: No time to cut & run, by Robert Zubrin, Feb. 9.
Robyn E. Blumner: If you liked Patriot Act I, don't miss the sequel
There is a hero in the Justice Department, someone whose identity I hope stays as secret as Deep Throat.
Bill Maxwell: A symbol of terror and racism in the South
From time to time, I join the legion of voices reminding the NAACP that it has better things to do than to worry about the Confederate flag and other emblems and structures, such as statues of fallen Rebel soldiers.
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