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Editorials
School district's dumb decision
Hillsborough County school officials are looking for a policy when common sense would do.

Homeland secrecy
The Bush administration should be eager for homeland security chief Tom Ridge to address Congress and the American people.

Nursing homes demand too much
Less than a year after winning major concessions from lawmakers, lobbyists for the national nursing-home chains are back pressing for more. They say high insurance costs are still choking the industry and want lawmakers to increase the homes' Medicaid reimbursement, and perhaps impose more stringent caps on tort damages than the ones approved last year. As the session winds down, lawmakers may be tempted -- or pressured -- to give in.

Letters
Jury did right thing in the case of Andrea Yates
Re: Abandoned by sanity, victimized by ignorance, March 17.  

Columns today
Gadgets afford air of authority
Looking to exude an air of authority at the next political rally you attend? Try bringing your walky-talky.

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.