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Editorials
Drug treatment for prostitutes
Few tactics are more frustrating and ineffective than arresting and jailing women involved in prostitution. Sometimes, mere hours pass before prostitutes return to their "posts" and prospective customers.

Fate of coastal waters is uncertain
A comprehensive report on the condition of the nation's coastal waters and estuaries should be a wakeup call for Florida. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency divided the country into five coastal areas and graded them on a scale of good, fair or poor for ecological health. Overall, the nation's coastal health was rated fair (barely), but the lowest rated area was the gulf coast, which got a grade of poor.

Right or blight?
While a lawsuit claims that restricting billboards implicates free speech rights, billboards can be constitutionally restricted for a variety of reasons.

Letters
Let's help the millions without health insurance
Re: Let's do something about health care, by Molly Ivins, March 27.  

Columns today
Howard Troxler
This switch in time holds the promise of summer
Benjamin Franklin was one of the first people on record to come up with the idea of daylight saving time. Franklin thought it was silly during the summer "to live much by candlelight and sleep by sunshine."

John Romano
What's a little envy among friends?
NEW YORK -- In the heart of tradition, there is jealousy. Look beyond the glare of all those championship rings and, maybe, you can see it too.

Sara Fritz
Why make leap into Middle East now?
WASHINGTON -- Why now? 

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.