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Editorial
Shark tank offers wrong lesson
The hardest workers at Tampa's Florida Aquarium are not the creatures whose antics pay the bills but the irrepressible souls in the marketing department. They have to come up with answers for the tax subsidies, debt and failed attendance projections. And now the P.R. people are rationalizing a new scheme to get paying customers in the door. Or should we say, into the shark tank. For $100, visitors can swim with the sharks at the aquarium, believed to be the first program of its kind in the country.

Editorial
Bad meat business
The meat industry, faced with its second largest recall for contamination, should clean up its act and embrace reforms that will make meat less hazardous to your health.

Letters
Expansion of college would aid downtown
Re: College's proposed land deal draws fire, concerning the City Council's response to St. Petersburg College expansion into downtown St. Petersburg, July 26.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Butterworth's surprising step down doesn't mean that he's out
Bob Butterworth, our state attorney general, certainly could have become a justice of the Florida Supreme Court, if only he had asked the last Democratic governor to appoint him.

Gary Shelton
Getting rough and tough in ... Mayberry?
CELEBRATION -- Look. No one wants to be the first to gripe. Bucs training camp is 1 day old, after all, and things are going along swimmingly. As they say here in Celebration, things are a sensation.

Sara Fritz
Bush should help drug debate
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is too clever for me.

 

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.