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April 19, 2000

Bill Maxwell
Glorifying death becomes way of life
Before departing the Big Apple last Monday afternoon, I put in a few hours at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem to investigate cycles of economic revival in the mostly black community.

Editorials
TGH, county must compromise
The worst outcome would be for either side to turn today's public hearing into a show trial that rehashes old antagonisms and policy arguments.

In for the kill
Lawmakers, resentful of the state university Board of Regents, have their prey in their sights. If they have their way, they will devour the regents, undermine the university system and leave USF mangled in the process.

Guest column: Bob Butterworth
The land-grab bill gets even worse
Thwarted by the tremendous public outcry against their original plan to give away massive acreage of public waterways, the House sponsors of the so-called Florida Land Title Protection Act are now reducing their giveaway to the most environmentally important lands in Florida -- the margins of every public lake and river in the entire state.

Letters
Being cheap now will cost us all much more later
Re: House GOP bill proposes end to impact fees, April 13.  

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.