September 7, 2000
Refocusing indigent health care
Hillsborough County's indigent health care plan is nationally recognized as a rare example of common sense in government. Thousands of the working poor receive preventive care they would otherwise go without, while the county and private health care providers save millions by catching patients before they require expensive emergency-room treatment. Thanks to a strong economy and more people moving off the welfare rolls, Hillsborough has the means to expand the program -- and should do so in a meaningful way.
Sensible voting
Voters in the Tampa Bay area deserve to be congratulated for basing most of their decisions on reason rather than rhetoric.
Our waters are dangerous, like everywhere else
I have spent many years fishing the waters between John's Pass and the Sunshine Skyway bridge, both inside Boca Ciega Bay and out on the reefs offshore.
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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