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Spratt's fresh approach
As Miami-Dade assistant county manager, Steve Spratt had a reputation for being innovative, dedicated and unafraid to tell the truth to his bosses and the public. He has enhanced that reputation since arriving in Pinellas in December to take the top post in county government.

The first to go
The resignation of City Manager Phillip Waldron was necessary step in restoring trust in Plant City government, and the police chief should be next.

Letters
Deputy did his duty when he chased stolen car
Re: Another chase ends in death, July 18.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Free breakfast for all; a sterling city clerk; Shaquille expected
It's hard for me to believe the Hillsborough school district begins another school year in less than three weeks (Aug. 7), and even more difficult for my kids to stomach.

Lucy Morgan
One Bush isn't just the other's keeper
Maybe Gov. Jeb Bush should tell his older brother, the president, to button his lip and forget about trying to make the stock market better.

Darrell Fry
Tiger's ignoring the issues
Listen again. Do you hear it now?

 

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.