June 26, 2000
Aiding to retirees
Helping low- and middle-income workers maximize their retirement should be part of the Social Security reform.
Aiding to retirees
Sen. Bob Graham has a good proposal that would give Medicare beneficiaries coverage for drug costs.
Secret assigned-seating factor
There is a rumor going around that the Tampa Bay Bucs are trying to improve their image. In recent weeks, the team agreed to pay its back taxes and drop defamation lawsuits against its fans. It may even allow a plaque honoring the University of South Florida football team to hang at the taxpayer-financed Raymond James Stadium.
Education isn't just jumping through hoops
One of the most memorable cartoons for me by the late Jeff MacNelly featured the Professor staring out the window. He was asked, "I thought you were a writer? Why aren't you pounding on the keys?" His response was, "Typists pound on keys. Writers stare out windows."
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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