December 15, 2000
Editorials
Voting mistakes
It's a good time for the Legislature to look into mistakes made by a private company that allowed ex-felons to vote, and then took that privilege away.
Letters
Supreme Court has served the nation well
Whether you are Democrat or Republican, you should thank the U.S. Supreme Court for its wise decision to stop the hand recount. This bold and courageous act saved the nation from an extremely devisive and embarrassing situation.
Editorial Notebook: Martin Dyckman
Tarnishing the courts
TALLAHASSEE -- One voice, and one voice only, was conspicuously mute amid the deafening cacophony over Florida's presidential vote. It is that of the legal establishment, represented by the Florida Bar, which defaulted pitifully on its obligation to uphold the integrity and independence of Florida's judiciary.
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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