Orange County’s $100,000 lesson
Terrence Terrill Arnold spent 116 days in jail in 1994-95 before he was able to convince Orange County officials that they were holding the wrong person. But from his horrific experience, and those of more than 120 others held in cases of mistaken identity, have come new procedures that officials hope will prevent this from…
Crossing the Christian Coalition
Randy Morris and Win Adams are certain to draw a rebuke from the Religious Right, should they seek re-election in November 1998 to their seats on the Seminole County Commission. Two other commissioners, Daryl McLain and Dick Van Der Weide, have until 2000 to feel the heat of the conservative political lobby. ;;In rejecting a…
Dodging deadly droplets
In 1984, John Harris says he became sick with flulike symptoms after malathion was sprayed over the University of Southern California campus. Five years later, he grew ill again after the pesticide was sprayed over his home near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. ;; During the 1980s and early 1990s, California spent more than $300…
Sweatshop woes or cheaper clothes
In a cabal of Washington arrogance and Wall Street avarice, the will of the people was stiffed when special trade privileges were recently extended to China — a move that will further exploit millions of impoverished and even imprisoned Chinese laborers, while it further undermines America’s middle class.;;One of the most outrageous aspects of giving…
