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Editorial
When good dogs go bad
Tallahassee authorities have made it official: Dogs are ineligible to run for Congress. The decision came as bad news for Percy, a black-and-white collie mix, and his keeper, Wayne Genthner of Sarasota, who had hoped to take on Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris for the House seat being left open by the retirement of U.S. Rep. Dan Miller, R-Bradenton.

Editorial
A fraud preventive
The Senate bill is good starting point to restore investor confidence with tough new controls on corporate officers and their accountants.

Letters
Investors should take control to protect assets
Re: Investors start shying away from stock market, July 12.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
Exactly who is derelict at his job, Gov. Bush?
Robert Mistretta makes this chilling prediction:

Ernest Hooper
Local laughs, memory lane, an undeserving builder
Roy Johnson and his cohorts spent two months selling tickets, calling friends, making arrangements and meeting every other promotional need for their one-night only event.

Tampa Uncuffed
Ominous at first; just goofy in the end
When Edgar and Katchik Sanamian, 21-year-old Armenian twins, were caught scrawling ominously hostile messages on a tiny Seffner church, the bafflement was universal.

Gary Shelton
'Undefeated' Gruden eager to get going
TAMPA -- The most popular man in the Tampa Bay area stands prepared to risk it all.

 

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.