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Editorial
The NRA poster boy
Attorney General John Ashcroft wants information that would keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons, fugitives and illegal aliens purged after a day.

Editorial
Miners taught us what's important
The nation was in a sense of suspended grief as rescuers struggled tirelessly last week to reach the coal miners trapped 240 feet beneath the ground in rural Pennsylvania. Each passing day added to the incredible odds against the nine men, as the frigid floodwaters around them rose, as the rescuers' drill bit broke, as the engineers calculated the proper spot to punch a route to safety.

Letters
Legal profession, litigious society are unforgivable
Re: "I forgive him," July 25.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
Underwear, books do not make a terrorist
It was a few years ago now, so I can write about it without getting anyone in trouble.

Mary Jo Melone
A thirsty region still gulps down development
To reach the Kings Point clubhouse from the parking lot, you have to cross a small footbridge over what appears to be a drainage ditch posing as a creek. The ditch is dry and full of grass.

Gary Shelton
Mystery in the backfield
LAKE BUENA VISTA -- Say this much for Michael Pittman.

 

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.