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Editorial
A predatory plan?
The government should investigate whether Enron engaged in a scheme to manipulate California's energy market in ways that unfairly inflated the company's profits.

Editorial
Coping with education cuts
Pinellas school superintendent Howard Hinesley didn't ask for this cost-cutting job, but give him some credit for the way he's gone about it. By tapping reserves, putting off some technology and eliminating central office and custodial jobs, he again has found a way to blunt some of the impact of Florida's education budget cuts.

Letters
Choice involves promises to the black community
Re: In choice denial, editorial, April 27.

 

Columns today
Lucy Morgan
The McKays tread a fine line in arena of conflict
Senate President John McKay doesn't like it when anyone writes about his wife, Michelle.

Darrell Fry
Look at Barr's heart and you'll see why the Bulls overachieve
TAMPA -- The question was asked, but Don Barr wouldn't bite. Imagine, he was asked, how successful his South Florida men's tennis team could be if he had the mega operating budget that some programs have?

Ernest Hooper
Families in chicken, a city for women
With a CEO who makes every store close on Sunday, Chik-Fil-A has attracted employees with what it calls a family atmosphere.

Sandra Thompson
Runaround mutes power of journey to ground zero
Until last week I had not been to New York since Sept. 11. I was afraid of what I might see. It had been my city, America's city, and, arguably, the greatest city in the world. I did not want to see it hobbled. I'd read article after article about places downtown that had gone under, not with the explosions but for lack of business, as well as one cautiously celebrating the reopening of Century 21, the famed discount department store that abuts the site.

 

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.