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June 21, 2000

Editorials
Stricter controls at Los Alamos
Security at the Los Alamos nuclear lab has gone unhinged. First workers hide for three weeks the disappearance of two computer hard drives that contained U.S., Russian and Chinese nuclear weapons secrets. Then, with FBI agents swarming the place, the hard drives mysteriously reappeared -- found behind a copier in a restricted area that federal agents already had searched twice.

Injecting religion
Thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court remains firm on not allowing schools to publicly inject a religious message during organized functions.

Gun control's unexpected effect
Canada's tough gun-control laws haven't eliminated crime, but at least in one case they've made a difference in how criminals arm themselves.

Bill Maxwell
Sad goodbye to 28th Street Drive-In
If you are a Pinellas County resident nostalgic for drive-in theaters, you had better unfold that rumble seat, rinse out that favorite thermos and truck out to 4990 28th St. N. On June 30, the county's one remaining ozoner -- the 28th Street Drive-In -- will not see another moonlit, starry night. Gone, too, will be those steamy car windows. Remember them?

Letters
Alligators are an integral part of our environment
Re: Alligator remains at large after eating family's dog, June 15.  

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.