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April 14, 2001
Editorials
Rodman Dam removal
The latest deal to save the Ocklawaha River dam not only ignores ecological concerns but puts the state on a crash course with the federal government.
Scholarship needs reform
This session's revenue shortfall in Tallahassee has forced politicians to re-evaluate Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship program. That's good news, because the program has suffered from inattention too long. But the changes being considered by the Legislature are apt to do more harm than good. The program has grown so large, and the state's priorities so skewed toward merit-based aid, that the lean budget times demand no less than a complete overhaul of Bright Futures. Any savings realized should be funneled into the state's anemic need-based aid budget.
Letters
Manatees cannot be corralled; this is their home
Re: Manatee protection revised, March 31.
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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