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Dredging up the truth
Gov. Bush and his critics should rise above political calculations and focus on a full and fair investigation of the state's child-protection system.

Editorial Notebook/Martin Dyckman
Senate District 27 pushes the line
Somewhat to his surprise, Frank Mann, a former House member and senator from Fort Myers, is running for the Florida Senate again. The surprise is that the Supreme Court upheld the redistricting plan that created the seat he hopes to win.

Letters
Help children by becoming a guardian ad litem
Re: Child abuse scandals cry out for us all to truly care, May 8.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Let's add a little gas to all of this water talk
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Jan Glidewell
Reality TV: If Osbourne can do it, why can't I?
As I contemplate retirement -- which comes with the right to whine about living on a fixed income -- I still look around for ways to supplement that income doing, of course, as little work as possible.

Ernest Hooper
A chain of tow trucks; a baseball family
Colleagues at Butler Towing & Recovery called Jack Mitchell "Pops" not just because he was 56, but because he looked after the younger guys.

Robert Trigaux
Buffett gives wild pitch at meeting
What's this? The world's second-richest man, billionaire Warren Buffett, in a baseball uniform?

John Romano
A tip of the cap to the Hall for putting value in accuracy
ST. PETERSBURG -- Wade Boggs made history in a Devil Rays uniform, although it is not the way history will recall him.

 

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.