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February 7, 2001
Bill Maxwell
Heavy past hangs over Groveland
GROVELAND -- Returning to this small Lake County town always unsettles me. Some of Florida's darkest moments unfolded here in 1949, and the years that immediately followed. Black History Month is a good time to look back.
Editorials
Injustice
Treating a man's false imprisonment ascommonplace says something terrible about our federal judicial system.
Giving grouper a break
The cost of fresh grouper is about to go up, maybe way up. From Feb. 15 until March 15, it will be illegal for commercial fishermen in the gulf to catch the most popular kinds of grouper (red, gag and black). So as fresh grouper becomes less plentiful in the coming weeks, the tasty grouperburger will become dearer.
TGH's long road ahead
Two events last week set Tampa General Hospital on course to reverse the disaster of privatization. On Friday, a state appeals court struck down the hospital's secrecy scheme, a decision that, if left unchallenged, could improve the hospital's finances and public image. Tampa General also reported a profit for the fourth quarter last year. The turnaround is dramatic, but the long-term outlook remains uncertain. Public confidence, good press and short-term financial gains can easily be swept away by mismanagement at the top.
Letters
Let's not pin too many hopes on predicted surplus
Re: Is there enough to go around? by Bill Adair.
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.
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