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Editorial
Cope's injudiciousness
Forget the arrest in 1996 for DUI while at a judicial conference in Naples. Forget the arrest last year for attempting to break into a younger woman's hotel room while at a judicial conference in California. The reason Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court Judge Charles Cope is no longer fit to preside is the reckless and injudicious behavior he has shown since.

Editorial
Bush's Mideast vision
President Bush has placed the peace process on a new track, which makes both Palestinians and Israelis aware of what's necessary to move the peace process forward.

Letters
Israel can offer a model for new Palestinian rule
President Bush's speech outlining steps needed to bring peace to the Middle East was remarkably perceptive and incisive. The president made it clear that the responsibility rests upon the Palestinian people to reject the corrupt Palestinian leadership, which has denied them human rights and the opportunity to benefit from the aid presented to them by the world.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
The man we may yet call Mr. Mayor
I was getting these phone calls. People were telling me I was all wrong about Frank Sanchez, the latest candidate in the race for mayor of Tampa.

Ernest Hooper
Weakness for fame; student art Capitolized
Lisa Ishi looked at the seven contestants to her right and decided she would designate the woman with the Vinny Testaverde New York Jets jersey as "the weakest link."

 

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.