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Bill Maxwell
Martha's Vineyard models preservation
All right, do not start laughing. This column is about nature -- piping plovers. You have not heard of piping plovers? Well, let me tell you about them.

Editorial
Warming signs: the administration
The Bush administration finally recognizes global warming -- but has no plan for combating its harmful effects.

Editorial
Warming signs: the Inuits
The Inuits are noticing ominous signs of global warming that are ignored by people in less extreme environments.

Editorial
Steps to ease nursing shortage
With more than 9,000 Florida nursing positions unfilled, legislation signed last week by Gov. Jeb Bush takes several important and immediate steps toward easing the shortage. The Nursing Shortage Solution Act will allow more students to enroll in state nursing schools and make it easier for out-of-state nurses to move here.

Letters
Join the effort to clean up our TV programming
Parents Television Council is an organization that is slowly starting to make an impact on the availability of "family hour" television. I applaud the efforts of this organization for spearheading the drive to bring about a positive change in television programming.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Out on a limb to save our trees
Should the state be able to come into your yard and destroy your citrus trees to fight the spread of citrus canker -- even if your tree appears healthy?

Robert Trigaux
Reunion brings together memories of Sept. 11
Friday was the first time I had flown in a plane since before Sept. 11. Not that I had purposely avoided flying (well, maybe a bit). But when trips north to Tallahassee or south to Miami came up, I've found myself behind the wheel and on the road.

Bill Maxwell
Martha's Vineyard models preservation
All right, do not start laughing. This column is about nature -- piping plovers. You have not heard of piping plovers? Well, let me tell you about them.

John Romano
Draftee chance to get it right
ST. PETERSBURG -- The story begins with heartbreak and maybe it ends that way too. Only Elijah Dukes knows for sure. You see, it's his story to tell.

 

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.