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Editorial
The use of deadly force
Todd Earlvin Neal was driving a pickup truck that was in the wrong place at the wrong time the night of July 14. Neal pulled into the circular driveway of a house in a quiet Oldsmar neighborhood about 10:30 p.m. His passenger hopped out of the truck and went into the house.

Editorial
P.R. is not the problem
Tampa tourism chief Paul Catoe was right: the misstep this week by organizers trying to land the 2004 Republican National Convention was a public relations "nightmare." But not for the reasons Catoe would have you believe. The group's biggest problem is not public relations but rather getting its larger act together and working in concert with local and state political leaders.

Letters
Where is outcry against killing of Israeli civilians?
As a long-time supporter of Israel, I share the grief for the loss of innocent lives that accompanied the killing of Salah Shehada. But the European, U.N. and Arab condemnation over the killing of the Hamas commander is in sharp contrast to the often nonexistent world response to regular and deliberate killing of Israeli civilians by terrorist groups directly connected with or encouraged by the Palestinian Authority.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Amid these attractions, can balance be retained?
Consider the nifty ways that some public schools in Pinellas County will compete to attract parents under the new "controlled choice" program:

Jan Glidewell
A welcome change in the political atmosphere
For a guy whose critics once nicknamed him "Nap," Hap Clark has a way of livening things up. And, even if he doesn't like this newspaper, I welcome his entry into the Pasco County Commission race.

John Romano
Chauvinism rears its ugly gearhead
Behind every pioneer is an unwitting accomplice.

Robert Trigaux
Corporate directors: poodles or pit bulls?
What's today's toughest job?

 

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.