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Editorial
No more wavering on security
It's been a bad week for airport security. First the head of the Transportation Security Administration is suddenly dumped from his job. Then his boss, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, sends more mixed signals about meeting the deadline to hire screeners and check passengers' bags. Now the Bush administration is beginning to reconsider its opposition to arming pilots, and Congress and Mineta have begun to play a blame game over whether the effort requires more money. Security is too important an issue to be decided by the usual Washington games. The two sides need to come together and fulfill the promise made after Sept. 11.

Editorial
Where's the compassion?
By withholding $34-million from the United Nations Population Fund, President Bush shows he cares more about antiabortion zealots than the reproductive health of Third World women.

Letters
Don't bill taxpayers for any convention
Re: Convention price tag is shock, July 25.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson
Culture's more than a bit different in France
Imagine my surprise when, sitting at an outdoor bar in Lyon, France, last week, reading the International Herald Tribune, these words in bold type jumped out at me: TAMPA AIRPORT IS THE PLACE TO BE.

Ernest Hooper
Training for voters; back for the bash
At first, I thought it was my cell phone vibrating.

Lucy Morgan
Reno, Harris point to an intriguing election
Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno answered questions for more than an hour during a town meeting this week at Tallahassee City Hall.

 

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.