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December 25, 2001
Editorials
Keep the courthouse snack bar
The courthouse that brought you extra-marital sex, drinking on the job and Boss Tweed-style political warfare is at it again. They're threatening to kick out the blind guy. Unless officials relent, the snack bar run by the Division of Blind Services will be gone from the Hillsborough courthouse in April because officials say they need the space.
Our hospitals at risk
Some of Tampa Bay's most important hospitals will be hurt by planned Medicaid funding changes that punish good facilities along with the bad.
Letters
True meaning of Christmas is selflessness
My fondest memory of Christmas is the year I filed for divorce. I thought the world had ended and it was all about "poor me." I didn't care about Christmas or the holidays; there was much less decorating and buying of presents. My children, 9-year-old Nancy and 7-year-old Donald, were all but forgotten as I crawled deep into self pity.
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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