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May 3, 2001
Editorials
Feeney's college-made-easy plan
Rather than pay up for students who meet Florida's Bright Futures standards for a college scholarship, House Speaker Tom Feeney has his own bright idea: Give the students a test instead of a college course.
Making sure votes count
The House and Senate agree on how to count every vote, but in 2002 there will be one less opportunity to cast it. The compromise also plainly favors Gov. Jeb Bush.
Uncareful consideration
The greatest danger to Florida's environment is not drought, fire or flood but the final hours of a Florida legislative session, when confusion provides cover to schemes that could not stand scrutiny. Environmentalists took particular alarm Wednesday over two reports:
Letters
Supreme Court's ruling is a blow to 4th Amendment
Re: Arrest without warrant upheld, April 25.
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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