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Editorials
In choice denial
In Pinellas, elected leaders seem to ignore the perils of school choice, such as increased transportation costs for overlapping or distant bus routes for students.

Low priority for Tampa housing
The official reaction to Tampa's housing scandal has been to replace Chet Luney and Steve LaBrake. But their history of gifts and favors points to a much larger problem: The job of putting low-income people in quality homes ranks low as a political priority. For all the talk at City Hall about affordable housing and community development, the city hasn't given adequate attention to the planning and design of these communities, or enough thought to how these efforts contribute to the city's quality of life.

Letters
Vatican policy is vague and irresponsible
Re: Short of zero tolerance, April 25.

 

Columns today
Lucy Morgan
Behind the banking bill, a political thicket
On the surface, the battle to change the way the state regulates banks and insurance companies looks almost civilized.

Darrell Fry
If that isn't Dunn, it must be his clone
TAMPA -- Warrick Dunn takes the handoff and cuts to his right, stutter-steps and then squirts through the hole, turning a busted play into a nice gain.

Sandra Thompson
City needs to turn back the covers for B & Bs
To B & B or not to B & B: That is the question.

 

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.