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June 1, 2000

Martin Dyckman
Cumulative voting worth a try
Considering all the ideas Florida has been borrowing from Texas lately, it's sad that one of the best has gone begging here.

Editorials
Public housing problems
The St. Petersburg Housing Authority has more problems than it wanted to admit but now it needs to accept it and correct it.

Cumulative voting works divide
Considering all the ideas Florida has been borrowing from Texas lately, it's sad that one of the best has gone begging here.

Letters
When will we see need for effective gun control?
Re: Seventh-grader shoots, kills Lake Worth teacher, May 27.  

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.