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May 19, 2001
Editorials
Youth and punishment
Following the verdict in the trial of Nathaniel Brazill, it is apparent that Florida needs to find a better way to deal with its young killers.
Learning bill needs a boost
One of the best but least publicized bills of the 2001 legislative session may need a little help from the public to get past the governor's desk. It's the "Learning Gateway" legislation, CS for SB 1018, which would authorize Florida's first serious effort to identify children with undiagnosed learning disabilities and see to it that they do not fall behind in school.
Letters
Don't let rumors about Bush cloud the real issues
The rumors of Gov. Jeb Bush's infidelity as reported by Lucy Morgan (Governor's phone call a sign of the times, May 12) really scare me. Although I am a severe critic of Gov. Bush and the widespread damage his administration has done to the state of Florida, I don't believe these rumors about the governor.
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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