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August 2, 2000

Convention Notebook: Philip Gailey
The Democrats' misfire
PHILADELPHIA -- Traditionally, the two political parties have observed a cease-fire during each other's presidential nominating conventions. It has been a good time for the candidates to relax, as Al Gore is doing this week at a North Carolina beach house before the rigors of the fall campaign. But with Gore still trailing George W. Bush in the polls, worried Democrats decided they couldn't afford to sit by this week and allow Republicans to get away with projecting a softer, friendlier image from Philadelphia. So they have been firing away, President Clinton from a distance and a group of Gore surrogates on the ground here.

Editorials
Pruitt's folly
In the irresponsible tradition of Bo's Bridge, another powerful legislator is pushing an unnecessary six-lane environmental monstrosity.

Bill Maxwell
Hiring illegals creates enslavement
GAINESVILLE -- It was a scene made for the movies: Last Thursday in Gainesville, armored personnel carriers deployed sharpshooters at 1707 Williston Road, home of Chang Qin Zheng, his wife Jin Shuang Zheng and his brother Zheng Zheng.

Letters
Parties' political conventions have lost significance
Re: GOP parley still news even if pols script roles, by Howard Troxler, July 31.  

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.