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Sunset Monday
In an arrogant assault on Florida's sunshine laws, a state Senate committee hastily approved 14 exceptions to the public's right to information.

Voyeur Dorm's court victory
We hope Tampa's political opportunists learned a lesson from wasting all that time and public money to harass the nude broadcast service called Voyeur Dorm. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the city's appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld Voyeur Dorm's right to operate.

Letters
Billboard owners being legislated out of livelihood
Re: Billboard bullying, editorial, March 11.  

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
How can we keep kids' eyes on the prize?
The idea that you have to promise a child a prize to get him to try hard on a school test goes against everything I believe.

Gary Shelton
Coaches dominate the game
Once, a young man shot a basketball. It went through the net and pandemonium, as it tends to do, ensued.

Tampa Uncuffed
Hey, these new mail carriers have guns
After Hillsborough sheriff's deputies caught a couple of thieves who had stolen hundreds of pieces of mail from mail boxes in Valrico and Bloomingdale, they set about getting the stolen goods back to their owners. All 455 pieces. 

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.