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April 26, 2001
Editorials
Selling-out nursing home residents
Gov. Jeb Bush and his point-man Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan promised Floridians a balanced package on nursing homes, one focused as much on enhancing the quality of care homes provide as on reducing the litigation they face. But the administration's troubling coziness with the industry has helped produce a House bill so lopsided in favor of nursing homes that even its original authors, Reps. Carole Green, R-Fort Myers, and Nancy Argenziano, R-Dunnellon, are threatening to vote against it. Unless some sense of fairness is restored to the bill, that's exactly what lawmakers should do.
The public's enemy
New legislation would pose an undue burden on protesters, particularly those who fight for environmental causes, and assault public standing on licenses and permits.
Peru's shootdown in question
Peru's downing of an unarmed airplane, which killed an American missionary and her infant daughter, was a preventable tragedy that demands serious answers from both Peru and the U.S. government. Peru should end its reckless shootdown policy or lose U.S. technical and financial assistance for its war on drugs. The Bush administration, meanwhile, needs to explain what role a CIA surveillance flight played in the incident to ensure American taxpayers are not supporting the barbarity of blowing suspects out of the sky.
Letters
McCabe should be focusing on real criminals
Re: Despite his love; dad may go to jail, April 15.
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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