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December 5, 2001
Bill Maxwell
A New York streetscape in action
NEW YORK -- From the Financial District to Harlem, sidewalk vendors sell colorful streetscapes that capture the essence of Manhattan. More than keepsakes, these painted and photographed scenes remind buyers that New York is America's City.
Editorials
Grin and bear prisons
Privately operated prisons should be held to the same constitutional standards as publicly operated prisons, protecting inmates from civil rights violations.
Demands on garbage truck drivers
One St. Petersburg garbage truck driver has two off-duty DUIs and two license suspensions. It hasn't hurt his employment. He was assigned to a different job each time he lost his license, and once he regained it, he returned to guiding 16-ton garbage trucks through the city's narrow alleyways and streets.
Letters
Judge's integrity did not deserve to be questioned
Your article of Nov. 30 (Pinellas judges get an edge in traffic court) and the editorial based on that article on Dec. 3 (Judges' special treatment), regarding how two traffic citations Judge Paul Levine received were handled, were off the mark. I am the attorney who appeared in court on Judge Levine's behalf on one of these citations. Your reporter indicated that he was unable to reach me for comment. I would like to do so now.
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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