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Editorial
A dialogue in Havana
Jimmy Carter's plain talk created an opportunity for President Bush to move U.S.-Cuba relations forward.

Editorial
Explain the recycling sham
The city of St. Petersburg deceived the public about a curbside recycling program. For the past 10 years, residents in two neighborhoods went to the trouble of separating their newspapers and plastic bottles from the regular garbage. What the residents didn't know, however, is that the city was only pretending to recycle the material. The paper and plastic actually ended up in the county incinerator, along with the rest of the city's garbage.

Editorial
Shoulder fair share of taxes
Last week, stockholders of Stanley Works, a hardware manufacturer that has operated out of New Britain, Conn., for 159 years, voted to move the company's headquarters offshore to Bermuda and change its legal residence to Barbados. The vote was later invalidated due to alleged problems in the balloting; the company says a new vote will be held. Stanley's corporate relocation would require no new physical structure. Instead, it would be a matter of opening a couple of mailboxes.

Letters
Middle path may offer hope for Mideast peace
Re: How Mideast peace process was killed, May 9.

 

Columns today
Tampa Uncuffed
Greco's support draws FBI kudos
The tight-lipped Tampa office of the FBI rarely comments on local political figures.

 

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.