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May 13, 2000

Editorials
Austria's telegenic racist
Jorg Haider, of the right-wing Freedom Party in Austria, has officially stepped down as leader. While it's good that the telegenic, even appealing (in an Aryan sort of way) Haider will no longer be fronting their distasteful, racist, anti-Semitic agenda, his party is still in the coalition government of Austria and his ideas are washing over Austria's borders, both east and west.

Environmental heroes
Sens. Jack Latvala, Tom Lee and a handful of other Republicans blocked their party's worst initiatives, but the battle could be even uglier next year.

E. D. Vergara
Drought means we must scale back daily water consumption
With each day that passes without rain, the water situation becomes more dangerous. Tampa Bay area residents should be aware of the dire need to cut back their consumption to meet the current record demand. This cutback can help to curb more drastic measures in future water restrictions.

Letters
Voters admire a politician who has principles
Re: No 1 stands out more, May 8.  

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.