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August 25, 2001
Editorials
Money, not amendments
Amending the state Constitution would be the wrong way to try to accomplish the worthy goal of reducing class sizes in Florida's schools.
Jeb's voodoo economics
With Florida facing a budgetary bind after three years of celebrated tax breaks, Gov. Jeb Bush has offered what amounts to so much economic malarkey Not only do the $1.6-billion in recurring annual tax breaks bear no blame for the impending shortfall, says the governor, but they are in fact solely responsible for generating $3.4-billion in new state tax receipts over the period.
Tampa General's rehabilitation
What a difference new leadership has made at Tampa General Hospital.
Letters
Offering amnesty to illegal aliens is troubling
I am totally upset that the public is not being informed about the crucially important debate within the Bush administration and Congress over "amnesty" for millions of men and women who deliberately have come to our country illegally.
Alan Ehrenhalt
Doing away with superfluous constitutional offices might do some good
The most ridiculous elective office in American state government is about to pass out of existence.
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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