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July 19, 2000

Editorials
Silencing rail talks
Here's a measure of the political paralysis in Hillsborough: County Administrator Dan Kleman can't even make a routine lobbying trip to Washington.

President's justice
Voters should keep in mind that the next president may be faced with choosing three or four new Supreme Court justices, who may change the court's direction.

Letters
Court shouldn't deny voters a say on amendments
Re: Court bars affirmative action from 2000 ballot, July 14.

Bill Maxwell
Honored diplomat felt racism at home
As the most important Mideast peace talks in a generation wind down at Camp David, I am reminded of the years 1948 and 1949, when United Nations diplomat Ralph J. Bunche -- an African-American -- was the chief mediator between Arabs and Jews on the island of Rhodes for 81 days non-stop.  

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.