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Prevent religious electioneering
Seventy percent of Americans believe churches should not endorse political candidates for public office, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life. This substantial majority represents an inherent understanding by most Americans that there should be a distinct separation of church and state.

Storms' poor judgment
Watching Ronda Storms shoot herself in the foot would be entertaining if it weren't a serious comment on her job performance. Her battle with public access television is typical of the poor judgment and lack of proportion that Storms has applied to public policymaking since joining the Hillsborough County Commission in 1998.

Retarding due process
A law that would limit state payments for unusually complex death penalty work might prevent death-row inmates from receiving effective counsel.

Letters
Show concern for people as well as for animals
Re: Rage, then Outrage, April 14.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Nude beach supporters must cover their bases
What I enjoyed most about the effort to establish a clothing-optional beach at Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County was the colossal overoptimism behind it.

John Romano
Quiet, sure, but Bucs still are at work
TAMPA -- The television in the general manager's office is operating without volume. Thus, it has much in common with the team's draft.

Sara Fritz
Tax cut getting top priority over drug benefit for seniors
WASHINGTON -- Mike Bilirakis is exceedingly loyal to the Republican leadership in the House and, therefore, he voted last week to make permanent President Bush's tax cuts.

 

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.