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September 4, 2001
Editorials
Trial and error
Initial estimates of embryonic stem cell colonies available for research didn't take into account the trial-and-error nature of research. More support is needed to guarantee its progress.
Questionable judgment
It is true, as Gov. Jeb Bush, says, that Roy Cales, who had been serving as Florida's first technology czar, deserves the presumption of innocence as he prepares to defend himself against charges of grand theft. Cales is accused of using a phony letter from a television station to persuade a Tallahassee bank to lend him $35,000 five years ago. Cales resigned his $95,000 job this week, but his lawyer says his client "emphatically denies he did anything wrong, much less illegal."
Tampa's next mayor needs ethics
The report that Tampa Mayor Dick Greco gave a cushy city job to an old family friend underscores the importance ethics should play in the next election for mayor.
Letters
Cost is a key factor in buying a voting system
Re: Ducking a difficult decision, editorial, Aug. 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.
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