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March 30, 2001
Editorials
Toward an uneasy peace
President Bush had good reason to take a step back from Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, but Washington can't ignore the escalating violence in the region.
Attack on Sunshine Laws
State lawmakers in the House must have Florida confused with Iraq or North Korea. Under a proposed bill, the state could jail a person for identifying an applicant to lead a Florida university. Under current law, it is required that the names of state university presidential candidates be made public, but separate legislation to reorganize the university system would close that process from public view.
Humanity to immigration policy
U.S. Sen. Bob Graham and U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart have teamed to restore a measure of humanity to our immigration policies. The two Florida lawmakers are sponsoring legislation that would restore protection under Medicaid and the state-run Children's Health Insurance Program or CHIP, to legal immigrant children.
Letters
Offending ad not from Adventist denomination
The St. Petersburg Times ran an advertisement on March 16, from a church that calls itself the "Sweetwater Seventh-day Adventist Association." Several letter writers have responded, drawing the erroneous conclusion that the church is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. That is not correct. The Sweetwater Seventh-day Adventist Association is an independent church not affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination.
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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