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Editorial
Keep out the soccer hooligans
The locals are fleeing the city, closing schools and shops and bringing their children and flower pots inside. No, a tsunami isn't coming. British soccer fans are. They arrive in Japan next week for the start of the month-long 2002 World Cup.

Editorial
Making a strong downtown
Now that downtown St. Petersburg has come alive, city leaders in Tampa are crossing the bay, looking to copy that experience. The two downtowns have a different geography, a different history along their waterfronts and a different economic base, but the makings of a strong downtown are fairly universal. Tampa Mayor Dick Greco has built momentum by supporting new arts and tourist facilities, but the effort needs work along a wider front.

Editorial
Wilderness protection
By allowing timber companies access to roadless areas in Alaska's national forest, the Bush administration is weakening wilderness protection.

Letters
Collier teacher was trying to get students to think
Re: Education or activism? May 20.

 

Columns today
Steve Bousquet
Voting rights lawsuits might only prolong furor
If the U.S. Department of Justice hoped that voting rights lawsuits against three Florida counties would be the final chapter in the tortured saga of the 2000 election, it failed miserably.

Sandra Thompson
It's hard to be hip after 50 -- or any other time
Last weekend we went to the movies at WestShore Plaza to see Infidelity, which one review described as "a movie about adultery for adults." The lobby was crawling with kids -- Spiderman was playing in a bunch of theaters, and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones had just opened. The "movie for adults" was playing in a theater so small that sitting in the second row from the back meant sitting in the second row. (Not counting those awful rows in front of the wide horizontal aisle.)

 

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.