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February 13, 2001
Times recommends
For better city government
For much of the past four years, the St. Petersburg City Council has been derided by citizens and even its own members for a quirky, combative style of government business. Council members sometimes spend as much time arguing with each other as they do trying to hear the community they serve, and their reputation has suffered.
Editorials
Hasty allowance
Allowing absolute immunity for any commercial aircraft more than 20 years old was a mistake, and the Legislature should revisit the process properly with public hearings.
Letters
Options are limited for many with Alzheimer's
Nancy Reagan was a wonderful guest on Larry King Live recently and, regardless of one's political views, it is heartwarming to have so many tributes going out to the former president who, whatever his shortcomings, does not deserve his long drawn-out dying.
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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