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Editorial
Better lasik information offered
After Tiger Woods had laser surgery to improve his eyesight, he said he felt like he'd "experienced a miracle." But if you're ready to toss out your glasses for a miracle of your own, you have a few more important things to consider than how the treatment might improve your golf game.

Editorial
Change at USF
Though executive officer Bill Heller is leaving, his work has created a solid foundation from which USF St. Petersburg can grow into a more independent campus.

Letters
Don't let scandal hurt good works of the church
We would appreciate an opportunity to comment on Mark Shields' article, Reminder about the Catholic Church, which appeared on June 3. Although the article focused on his advice to our bishops as a caring Catholic, he went on to expand upon a very important point that has, all too often, gone unnoticed and unreported in the media: the enormous good that the Catholic Church does through its advocacy, its schools and programs to help the poor and less fortunate among us.

 

Columns today
Darrell Fry
For Mickelson, here's a major opportunity
The U.S. Open is starting, and by most estimates Tiger Woods has this thing won. He's undisputably the greatest pro on the planet and comes to Bethpage Black playing solid golf.

Tampa Uncuffed
Humoring woman behind the badge
To those in legal circles, the man who appeared at City Hall the other day had a familiar face. Folks slapped E.J. Salcines on the back, saying, "How are ya, judge?"

 

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.