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In need of vetoes

An Everglades cleanup bill has been tainted by the addition of an assault on citizen standing in environmental disputes. It deserves Gov. Jeb Bush's veto.
A transportation bill has turned into a legislative "train" so loaded with bad ideas that it deserves to be derailed by the governor.

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Dear Jeb: See past the lies, veto phone bill
Dear Governor Bush:

Lucy Morgan
It was Civility Day in the Capitol
Stop the presses: Senate President John McKay and House Speaker Tom Feeney are actually talking to each other. And Gov. Jeb Bush is talking to both of them.

Robert Trigaux
Slogan in hand, Tampa sharpens vision for downtown
Downtown Tampa just got a new slogan: Not Just A Place To Work. The Place To Be.

John Romano
One victory isn't much, but it's still something
ST. PETERSBURG -- Watch closely, and you will see the gains. Stare long enough, and you can make out the benefits.

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.