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August 1, 2001
Editorials
Latest blow to family planning
The Bush administration is continuing its veiled attempt to close the door on women's reproductive health care. Bush isn't budging in his opposition to nine states' proposals to use federal money to provide contraception to low-income women, including a Wisconsin plan signed by pro-life Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson when he was governor.
Harris, foreign diplomat
Katherine Harris added international relations to her role as secretary of state, however, the state of Florida already pays a company for that purpose.
Letters
Americans will not stand for more job losses
I would like to thank Florida's U.S. Reps. Bilirakis, Ros-Lehtinen, Boyd, Brown, Hastings, Meek, Thurman and Wexler for standing up for the Steel Industry in Florida and America with their co-sponsoring of H.R. 808 Steel Revitalization Act. At a time when young people find it hard to land good paying jobs and struggle to meet basic needs, our government is allowing steel be illegally dumped into this country and costing thousands of good-paying American jobs.
Bill Maxwell
Too much importance placed on FCAT
During my nearly 20 years as a college English and journalism teacher, I had a reputation for being tough, even mean.
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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