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October 31, 2001
Bill Maxwell
The lives left behind after the tragedy
NEW YORK, Oct. 28 -- My family has two urns.
Editorials
Council's outings disconcerting
Some St. Petersburg City Council members have developed such an affinity for each other that they should adopt the theme song from the old Patty Duke Show: "They laugh alike, they walk alike, sometimes they even talk alike."
Meltdown
The House sent in its dangerously unbalanced, irresponsible and shamefully amended budget. It would serve Floridians well for the governor to veto it.
The folly of bonuses during crisis
If Florida lawmakers insist that raising taxes is irresponsible in a time of economic distress, then they might consider this political corollary: Handing out bonuses is not smart business when employees are being laid off.
Letters
As an airport, Whitted land is safe for future
I agree with your editorial of Oct. 28 (Overlooking airport details). St. Petersburg's Albert Whitted Airport would tie up the land for 20 years or maybe 50 years. That is the basis for my reasoning. We have no obvious need for that land now. However, 50 years from now our children will be happy that we kept this land in trust for a possible alternate use that we cannot envision today. (Maybe a stadium site, transportation hub or Olympics venue.)
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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