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September 6, 2000

Editorials
Restoring trust
Tampa police Chief Bennie Holder sent the right message last week by forcing the resignation of Deputy Chief Ken Taylor. Two resumes in Taylor's personnel file listed a bachelor's degree he didn't have, and Holder said Taylor misled him by personally assuring the chief he had earned a four-year degree. The issue is not merely one of educational qualifications but of candor and credibility. If the chief cannot trust his subordinates, how can officers in the department function?

Cosgrove's quibbling
Serious issues, which do not include Tom Gallagher's legal qualifications, await debate as Floridians prepare for the last time to elect a treasurer and insurance commissioner.

Debate over debates
The public shouldn't let George W. Bush try to alter the commission's debate format that limits tough give-and-take and limits viewership.

Bill Maxwell
E-mail is more clutter than it's worth
This is one of those self-serving columns that has to be written.

Letters
Debate limits let Bush avoid being tested
Re: Bush offers, Gore rejects debate plan, Sept. 4.  

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.