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May 22, 2001
Editorials
Reno's baggage
Despite her distinguished career, if Janet Reno were to run for governor, Floridians would end up rehashing her involvement in past crises instead of focusing on what's good for the state.
Some strikes unfair
The nation's public housing authorities hold a heavy club over innocent tenants. Residents suspected of crimes can be thrown onto the street -- convicted or not. Even ones the police brand as a nuisance can lose their homes. Guilt-by-association not only violates due process rights; it's a sloppy way to fight the drug trade. Local housing authorities should offer tenants more protection if the federal government fails to act.
Letters
We can do better than Bush's energy policy
Government leaders have led citizens down the primrose path regarding energy. We have experienced energy shortages in the past, during wars, during peace. We know what we need to do. Or at least we did.
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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