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Editorial
Reducing drug costs
By closing loopholes pharmaceutical companies use to delay competition with generic drugs, Congress could help Americans save billions of dollars a year.

Editorial
Fair break for medical residents
Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who worked 110 hours that week and had been on-call for 36 hours straight? Of course not. People who are sleep deprived and overworked are far more prone to error. Yet, because medical residents come so cheap, teaching hospitals have routinely demanded they work dangerously long hours.

Letters
The estate tax is based on a robber mentality
Re: What's wrong with estate tax, editorial, June 11.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
State's take on canker just a little bit cantankerous
Please understand that I started out in a friendly posture toward our state Department of Agriculture. I accepted, and still accept, the state's goal of eradicating the disease of citrus canker in Florida through the removal of infected trees. I wrote a column last week saying so.

Jan Glidewell
When that motel finally opens, make room for me
It didn't dawn on me until lately, when I began planning weekly overnight visits to Clearwater as part of my dual-location marriage, that I spend an awful lot of time in hotel and motel rooms.

John Romano
Be prepared to be won over by Winn
ST. PETERSBURG -- Do you believe in Randy Winn?

Ernest Hooper
All the dirt on laundry, VIVO and vouchers
My wife is not always eager to talk about my job because she knows anything she says or does can and will be used in the column.

 

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.