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The violence hits home
administration still seems detached from the crisis.

Editorial
A library that benefits many more
A proposal to move the branch library in west St. Petersburg from Azalea Middle School to a new facility at St. Petersburg College has grown surprisingly controversial. A City Council hearing on the issue tonight is likely to get emotional, as some residents fight to keep the library in their neighborhood. That's understandable. But council members should remember that they are making a decision for all city residents and that it will determine the quality of library services long into the future.

Letters
Harris is due some praise for admitting error
Katherine Harris is known for following the law, and your paper is known for making it seem as though she doesn't. Harris admitted that she made a mistake, without trying to hide from it. Now she is trying to move forward, giving all her attention to her congressional race.

 

Columns today
Gary Shelton
Real attraction at the Trop? Thanks, Carl
ST. PETERSBURG -- In the middle of just another game, on a team going nowhere, in the dwindling days of a forgettable season, the darndest thing happened Monday.

Mary Jo Melone
The RNC tour bus will pass by these sights
Molly Gill, an 81-year-old woman from Largo, admits she isn't active in politics. "The only thing I'm active in is taking my medicine every day."

Ernest Hooper
Streetcar run timed well? Win for Ronda
Testing for the city's new streetcar system began Monday and continues today on tracks near the Ice Palace.

 

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.