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Editorial
A win-win deal
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker should be given the room to work a deal that would help the Florida International Museum, boost downtown development and offer space to St. Petersburg College.

Editorial
A winner deserving of honor
Lance Armstrong survived a bicycle wreck and the unseemly efforts by a few French officials and spectators to break his concentration on route to a fourth straight victory in the grueling Tour de France. No one should have been surprised. Survival and triumph are familiar experiences for Armstrong.

Editorial
Elect commission with character
The big issue in Hillsborough County Commission elections this year will not be parks or taxes or fire stations or how often residents may water their lawns. The issue is electing people with character -- candidates who have the know-how and integrity to lead and work together. Nothing more unites people from Carrollwood to Sun City Center than the shared embarrassment of being represented by a board that collectively is defined by meanness, pettiness and paranoia.

Letters
Castro's lecture on U.S. swindlers is hypocritical
Re: Castro praises House travel vote, July 27.

Bill Maxwell
South Florida's marine life is limited
In an effort to save South Florida's marine life -- especially the fish we relish at mealtime -- scientists are being forced to limit what we can catch and haul from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Hello, Fidel? Is it okay if I bring a few friends over?
That Darned Greco, 8 p.m., 13 -- "Dick in Havana." Hilarious complications result when Dick hatches a wacky plot to sneak off to Cuba.

Robert Trigaux
Tell the truth, and sign on the dotted line
Chief executives at most of the 947 largest companies in America are just starting to personally vouch to the Securities and Exchange Commission under oath that their financial results are accurate and complete.

Bill Maxwell
South Florida's marine life is limited
In an effort to save South Florida's marine life -- especially the fish we relish at mealtime -- scientists are being forced to limit what we can catch and haul from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

John Romano
Jones can't sidestep questions about his role
LAKE BUENA VISTA -- When it comes to Marcus Jones, the choices are never simple. So, sooner or later, you must pick sides.

 

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.