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Editorial
Ships come up short
St. Petersburg City officials need to make amends to the disappointed patrons of the tall ships festival if they want people to come back for future events.

Editorial
Money for charities, not salaries
Nothing obligates Tampa firefighters to raise money for charity. But if the firefighters' union solicits donations, it has an obligation to do it right. Eight cents of every dime the Tampa union raises in the name of charity actually goes for salaries and other overhead. Larding the effort with administrative costs does not help the needy in this community or honor a donor's good intentions.

Editorial
Taking the holiday off
The poor souls working on federal holidays should take comfort in a new poll by the Gallup Organization. The survey suggests that many are more exhausted after taking a vacation than they were before they left. More than half the 1,000 respondents returned home tired. One in five were "exhausted."

Letters
Student testing helps parents to fight drugs
Your July 1 editorial, An erosion of rights, totally ignores the reality of the deadly drug epidemic that we have today in our country. It also ignores what the majority of America's parents support: the health and safety of their children.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
If vision you must, please do it outside your own bo
It is impossible not to notice that many of our Tampa Bay area communities are engaged in visioning. This is a synonym for "paying a consultant."

Jan Glidewell
Stats back a more 'adult' approach to commerce
If you play around with statistics long enough, strange ideas begin to emerge.

Gary Shelton
Just between them
It's no secret the Williams sisters are the best, but will they finally prove it to each other?

 

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.