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December 23, 2000

Editorials
Airport idea does not fly
In an area already committed to cleaning up pollutants and other environmental dangers, it makes little sense to build an airport on the Homestead Airforce Base site.

Stop racial profiling
We have known for some time that the United States is losing the war on drugs. But documents now coming out of New Jersey shed new light on the extent to which equal protection and fairness have been casualties of that war.

Licensed drivers at risk
Three and a half million dollars can buy quite a bit of sophisticated law enforcement equipment, but Pinellas County Sheriff Everett Rice plans to use that amount for technology that would make every Floridian who drives a car a potential suspect.

Letters
Insurance rates should reflect the damage SUVs do
Re: State Farm plans to cut rates for larger vehicles, Nov. 29.  

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.