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November 6, 2001
Editorials
A dishonest debate
The House energy bill leads us to believe that if we drill domestically we can solve our energy problem, but we really need to conserve to save ourselves.
Checking on the voting system
Had pollsters asked Floridians a year ago to identify the state's most urgent need, the great majority probably would have said fixing Florida's broken voting system -- butterfly ballots, punch-card voting machines, the lack of uniform standards for counting disputed votes, et al. What a difference a year seems to have made. The Legislature enacted major election reforms earlier this year, and Division of Elections officials recently held the first in a series of public hearings on the election-law changes in Miami. They played to a mostly empty house. Letters
Red Cross is honoring wishes of its donors
This letter is in response to recent articles and editorials that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times regarding the distribution of donations received by the American Red Cross for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Red Cross encourages our donors to scrutinize the use of their donated dollars. However, we also encourage everyone to get the facts.
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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