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Protect our food
Bills that would protect Americans against food contamination are languishing in a joint conference committee because the food lobby is interfering.

No begging allowed
St. Petersburg's mayor and City Council have decided that the best way to deal with the homeless men and women who beg for money in popular parts of the city is to make criminals of them.

Letters
Vaccinations serve to prevent real health risks
Re: Parents fight to link vaccines, autism, April 15.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Apply this rule liberally: Do not try to define fun
Itry not to get into spitting contests with other columnists.

Gary Shelton
Money can't buy ... wait, yes it can
By and large, we disagree about a great many things. Politics. Sports. Entertainment.

Elijah Gosier
Too busy living to think about obituaries
A woman is incensed that a 7-year-old second-grader in St. Petersburg was arrested and cuffed, charged with destroying property after he acted up in school.

 

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.