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Editorial
Court needs better judgment
For a circuit court judge, Charles Cope is severely lacking in good judgment. New revelations about the way the Pinellas-Pasco judge tried to cover up his arrest in California suggest he doesn't belong on the bench, regardless of the validity of the criminal charges against him. Records show he conspired with then-Chief Judge Susan Schaeffer to keep the fact of his arrest from the Judicial Qualifications Commission, the body charged with policing judicial ethics.

Editorial
Too serious for posturing
National security, not partisan politics, must motivate the effort to identify and correct the intelligence failures that preceded the Sept. 11 attacks.

Editorial
School Board to public: Go away
You would think the Hillsborough County School District, which has been embarrassed by allegations of mismanagement and waste, would be doing everything possible to improve its tarnished image. But instead the School Board is quieting its critics. Under an offensive policy change, citizens who want to address the board during the public comment portion of meetings must wait until the official business is closed. Then the cameras go off, meaning that people who watch the televised meetings at home cannot hear what constituents said.

Letters
Sept 11. needs investigating to improve security
Re: What went wrong? editorial, May 17.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Have you heard about the lake that got away?
Hey, Don, we were KIDDING!

Gary Shelton
Issue brings questions, not answers
Action.

Ernest Hooper
Gathering of women; a fond adieu; a pig conflict
It started out being about entertainment, but it ended up being about enrichment.

 

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.