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A daunting task ahead
Changing Catholic culture will be no easy task for the U.S. bishops, but it's a good sign that many have already gone further than the pope has in handling abuse cases.

Fairness in telecommunications
Legislators embarrassed by Gov. Jeb Bush's veto of the telephone rate increase have no one but themselves to blame. He didn't ask for the bill, the telephone lobbies did. He did his job, which was to look out for the public interest. Theirs was the same, but most failed at it. Only 21 of the 120 lawmakers voted no. The remainder are left to explain why they voted for something that would give such offense to the public.

Letters
Don't hinder the faithful in political debate
Re: Prevent religious electioneering, editorial, April 22.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Longtime House clerk made Florida home for us
By the time of my first visit to Tallahassee in 1983, Allen Morris, who died Monday at the age of 92, already was a senior statesman, and in his last few years as clerk of the state House of Representatives.

Jan Glidewell
Step aside, adults, and let kids play dodgeball
A 20-year-old woman I know doesn't know the name of the only country in history ever to use nuclear weapons against another nation.

Ernest Hooper
Scrambling to honors, patchwork patriotism
When an organization as prestigious as the Judeo Christian Health Clinic wants to honor you, you just ask when and where and you show up.

Robert Trigaux
Masses rise to stymie corporate boardrooms
Are the country's Rip Van Winkle shareholders finally awakening?

John Romano
Vaughn has earned a chance to recover
ST. PETERSBURG -- He has been awful. You know it, he knows it and the rest of the American League certainly knows it.

 

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.