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Editorial
Police chases are too risky
Stealing a car should not carry a roving death sentence, but it has for suspects behind the wheel and for innocent motorists on our crowded roads. It happened again Wednesday, after a Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy chased a stolen Honda. The 17-year-old suspect ran a red light, slammed into construction barriers and careened into a 9-foot pile of sand. His death was the fourth chase-related fatality for the sheriff's office in three months and at least the 31st in the bay area since 1993.

Editorial
The silent privatizers
Supporters of privatizing Social Security are quiet these days, but they'll re-emerge when they think people have forgotten the current bear market.

Letters
Senate was right to approve site for nuclear waste
Re: Creating a new problem, editorial, July 13.

Letters
Readers respond to 'Walking to Paris'
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Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Rallying for nature; partying to be seen; Gator bonds
The cynic in me says the Earth Charter is a pie-in-the-sky idea crafted by someone who had a few too many mushrooms.

Howard Troxler
Visions of future development collide on sunny Treasure Island
The Gulf of Mexico is especially blue and vibrant on Sunset Beach, at the southern end of Treasure Island, one of the string of barrier islands along the Pinellas County coast.

Sara Fritz
Cheney may be turning into a political liability
WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney is not your ordinary vice president.

 

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.