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Editorial
Mining industry needs cleanup
When the law regulating hard rock mining was written, Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House and the nation wanted to encourage expansion into the Wild West. Now, mining companies seeking gold, copper and silver have devastated much of the West, releasing more toxic material into the environment than any other industry, yet the law has not changed since 1872. Year after year, decade after decade, mining interests have been able to defeat reform efforts in Congress.

Editorial
The paramount issue
Gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride isn't the only one focused on education, but his plan for reform is more productive than the lip service offered by the governor and Legislature.

Letters
Do not doubt the stewardship of Bishop Lynch
Re: Diocese projects go to bishop's friend, May 17.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Endangered folk festival proves its worth again
Iwatched a full moon rise behind moss-draped oaks while friends of the late Don Grooms honored him with a full night of nothing but music by and about him, and decided that, for an event that was supposed to be on its last legs earlier this year, the Florida State Folk Festival seems unusually alive and well.

Gary Shelton
Hughies are here (uh, postage due)
Good evening, and welcome to our show!

 

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.