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Editorial
Cut fat from the state budget
Gov. Jeb Bush has never been shy about using his veto pen. In past years, he has slashed tens of millions of dollars in pork from budgets handed him by the Legislature, willing to anger even many in his own party. This year, Bush should cut even deeper. He should find and return as much money as possible to the conservation projects raided by legislators to pay for other state needs.

Editorial
A heartbreaking loss
The death of Christopher Fannan of Tampa was as senseless as it is heartbreaking. Fannan, who was 18, was punched in the head Sunday outside a fast-food restaurant, less than a week before he was to graduate from high school and head into the world. We hope his family will find strength in the outpouring of support from Christopher's friends, and that his friends never forget the dreams of a young man who wanted to share life's journey with them.

Editorial
For fair elections
The best outcome of a lawsuit against five voting districts -- three in Florida -- in the 2000 presidential election may be that voters' rights won't be violated again.

Letters
Ashcroft is right in his view on the 2nd Amendment
Re: Ashcroft becomes what we feared, editorial, May 18.

 

Columns today
Gary Shelton
Mike Tyson, master manipulator? ... Uh, no
Silly me. I fell for it.

Ernest Hooper
Blue-ribbon schools, tell-all books and BBQ
The name says it all: middle school.

Tampa Uncuffed
Watch out: This burglar is no bungler
Tonight, before you close your eyes and surrender the day, ponder this:

Robert Trigaux
Big bounce eludes IPO, now comes test of mettle
In a now legendary scene 35 years ago in The Graduate, a businessman takes aside the naive Dustin Hoffman and says, "I just want to say one word to you -- just one word -- 'plastics.' "

 

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.