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July 18, 2000

Editorials
Long-awaited goodbye for dam
He hemmed, he hawed, he evaded and procrastinated, but Gov. Jeb Bush finally did the right thing and announced that he wants the Rodman Reservoir dam torn down. Now the process of restoring the much messed-with Ocklawaha River can begin.

Driving burden
The Department of Transportation needs to question its consulting firm's toll revenue estimates, because its errors are costing Florida Turnpike revenue and public trust.

Letters
Huge award in tobacco lawsuit makes no sense
Re: $145,000,000,000, July 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.