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June 8, 2000

Editorials
Poor deserve legal justice
Ever since the Republicans took over Congress, they've had the Legal Services Corporation in their sights. The program that provides legal services to the poor has been a bane to conservative lawmakers who can't stand the idea that prisoners, migrant farm workers and ghetto dwellers should have greater access to justice.

Making a super mess
EPA officials give reason for the public's lack of confidence in the Stauffer Superfund site cleanup.

Martin Dyckman
It's a shame Jennings is bowing out
No matter what you've heard, the Florida panther is not this state's most endangered species. There are still at least 50 of them.

Letters
Money is key when comparing medical systems
Re: No humor in Canadian health care, June 3.  

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.