June 5, 2000
A transportation con job
The ill-conceived Garcon Point Bridge was built not just because Bo Johnson wanted it but because too many public officials were more than willing to look the other way.
A reprieve for Tampa General
Tampa General Hospital fared well this legislative session, securing $20-million in aid that forestalls the chance outside creditors will start calling the shots. But though the money buys time, Tampa General still suffers from the same political and financial problems that drove it to the public trough. The hospital needs fresh leadership on its board, a new and focused strategic vision and the strength that comes from participation in a hospital alliance to fulfill its teaching and charity-care mission.
Scallop project deserved to have better reporting
Re: With budget in hand, time to talk turkeys.
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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