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September 19, 2001
Bill Maxwell
A slow return to normal after tragedy
ST. PETERSBURG -- The garbage truck came a few minutes ago. I walked to the window and watched the giant arm grab my plastic can and dump the contents into a huge container.
Editorials
Keeping airlines aloft
The airlines deserve special help from Washington, but lawmakers should carefully target the aid they give an industry endangered by the terrorist attacks.
Keeping children safe from abuse
Healthy Families Florida, the voluntary program that provides home visits to parents at risk of abusing their newborns, is at a critical juncture. Three years after its creation, Healthy Families may have to cut its services dramatically -- one casualty could be a promising local outreach project in Hillsborough County -- unless Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida lawmakers intervene next session.
Letters
Be grateful for the leadership of our president
I think it's important that we thank our president for his leadership in our nation's darkest hour. He has shown us strength, determination and support. We should thank our senators and representatives for supporting our president.
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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