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December 6, 2001
Editorials
Shortsighted with USF
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker should recognize the importance of University of South Florida to the city and offer up some of Albert Whitted Airport's land.
USF's grown-up Bulls
We were among the skeptics when University of South Florida officials began exploring the idea of developing a Division I football team. It had been decades since any school in the nation had built a major-college football program from scratch, and finding elbow room in Florida among all the Gators, Seminoles and Hurricanes seemed especially daunting.
A vote for a new tax
As promised, the Legislature has voted to delay the previously approved intangibles tax cut, thereby saving $128-million to apply to the budget deficit. The margins of 37-2 in the Senate and 102-17 in the House were impressive, considering that it could be called -- as some did -- a vote for a new tax.
Letters
Budgets cuts will mean suffering for the vulnerable
Floridians should be distressed and disgusted that the Legislature has cut the state budget in a way which, if passed, will result in pain and suffering for thousands of our neighbors -- young and elder, and so many in-between.
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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