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July 19, 2001
Editorials
A Tampa Bay think tank
One reason local issues such as water and transportation get politicized is that this region lacks a source of independent research and information. The result is often partisan gridlock on a range of issues -- from health care and growth management to support for tourism, sports and the arts -- because elected officials and the public have nowhere to turn for sound, independent advice.
Trafficking in humans
A report by the U.S. State Department has focused attention on a tragedy that too many countries have chosen to ignore: the international trafficking in human beings -- mostly women and children -- who wind up in forced servitude or worse. Now the Bush administration should keep the pressure on to make sure that the international community acts on this human rights issue.
Olympic scrutiny
The decision to award the 2008 Games to Beijing puts China's government in the international spotlight -- and may enhance Tampa's hopes for 2012.
Letters
Sympathy for the perpetrator disgraces officer
Re: Robber felt "betrayed" by police, July 13.
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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