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July 21, 2001
Editorials
More missteps for Tampa council
The Tampa City Council can be clueless, irrelevant and weak, but rarely is it all three on the same day. That's why Thursday's meeting was such a dubious achievement. Rather than slam-dunk two easy decisions -- removing the police cameras from Ybor City and a discriminatory clause from the city's pension plan -- the council hemmed and hawed for more time. The delay makes righting these wrongs more difficult.
Harris' disappearing act
Withholding or erasing the records of two GOP operatives in the secretary of state's office during Florida's recount violates our public records laws.
Letters
It's time to clear the air, protect Floridians' health
As you read this, a constitutional amendment is being considered for the state of Florida. Florida is considering outlawing smoking from most workplaces, restaurants and health care facilities. It's about time something of this importance be addressed.
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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