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Editorial
Misdirected criticism at police
Plenty of people can complain about the lack of support they've received from Tampa Mayor Dick Greco, but the city's police officers aren't among them. In his last seven years as mayor, Greco has given the police everything they've wanted -- take-home cars, a stolen-car chase policy, 140 new officers, a new headquarters and a 30-year tax to buy new equipment.

Editorial
Creating a new problem
Sens. Bob Graham and Bill Nelson owe Floridians an explanation of their support for a plan that will require shipping tons of nuclear waste through the state.

Letters
Investors want to see a crackdown on wrongdoing
Re: Business as usual.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Bastille Day lures fans of France
Tampa has its Latin community, but Anna Gervait wants you to know the city also has a vibrant French connection.

Darrell Fry
The real Iverson has stood up once again
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Allen Iverson.

 

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.