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March 28, 2001
Editorials
A new chapter
In choosing Rick Baker as their next mayor, St. Petersburg voters turned to the candidate committed to building on the city's recent progress.
Religious freedom needed
Some members of the Citrus County School Board have been out of school so long they apparently have forgotten a key premise of the U.S. Constitution: The rights of an individual are just as important as the rights of the majority.
Letters
Why subject Scientology to discrimination?
Your editorial, Police work for Scientology (March 22), is perplexing. The position seems to be that it is acceptable to discriminate against Scientology (at least in this matter), but not against other religions, like Catholicism and Presbyterianism, that are more acceptable to you. The reasons you offer for advocating this selective religious discrimination are a "controversial history" and conflicts with others.
Bill Maxwell
Deed restrictions rule out foster care
Brooklyn native Elena Burge is a mother of four and a grandmother. Married for the second time, she has lived in Pinellas County for the last 31 years. She, her husband and her mother reside in Tamarac-By-The-Gulf in Seminole.
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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