Perspective: April 1, 2001
April 1, 2001
Editorials
'The insanity . . . has to stop'
In the year since St. Petersburg filed a lawsuit trying to force Bayfront Medical Center to abandon its religious directives, the hospital has done precisely that. In fact, it severed its alliance with the BayCare Health System, which included Catholic hospitals and required the directives, and its board has reinstituted the abortion and medical policy that existed prior to BayCare. It has supplied thousands of pages of documents to the city's attorneys and has allowed five executives to be questioned under oath.
Stop the destruction
The Florida House seems determined to destroy judicial independence. Now it's time for the Senate to get tough.
Letters
There's joy in finding your calling
Re: It's important to do what you love by Bill Maxwell, March 25.
Bill Maxwell
Rev. Jackson's time has come to step down
The time has come for the Rev. Jesse Jackson to step down as top man of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. I arrived at this conclusion grudgingly.
Martin Dyckman
Legislators pass conflicting bills on health insurance industry
TALLAHASSEE -- A freshman legislator's first bill is supposed to be something easy, like naming a park for George Washington, but for hers, Rep. Kim Berfield, R-Clearwater, has a tiger by the tail. She's trying to make out-of-state health insurance companies follow all of Florida's rules when they sell individual policies to people here.
Don Addis
The things we did as kids
I promised I wouldn't use her name. And she was too ill at the time for me to hit her with the obvious questions, but I puzzled for a long time over the story a friend told me recently about a dumb thing she did as a child.
