Editorial
What's that smell?
Each time St. Petersburg residents get a whiff of operations at Albert Whitted Airport, something smells, and it isn't the sewer plant next door.

Editorial
Iraq questions
Military experts and Republican allies of the president are voicing some of the strongest criticism of the White House's plans for toppling Saddam Hussein.

Letters
Disrespect is a lesson learned at home
Re: Respect for teachers has declined while the job has gotten harder, by Bill Maxwell, Aug. 4.

Andrew Barnes
An upclose impression of president
President George W. Bush's White House is punctual. We, a group of a dozen newspaper and broadcast executives, had been invited for 10 o'clock. At just 10 o'clock we found ourselves seated around the table in the Roosevelt Room. Security, by the way, was no more tight than in the airport, though of course our names had been cleared in advance.

Robyn E. Blumner
Our law enforcement is beginning to look like science fiction
In the science fiction movie Minority Report law enforcement is conducted using a group of "Pre-Cogs" who see murders before they happen. The predestined murderer is then tracked down and incapacitated before he can act.

Bill Maxwell
Teens return to school with the right tools
This is a personal, back-to-school column with a positive ending. I do not identify the teenagers because they asked me not to.

Philip Gailey
An unpredictable public mood for primary Election Day
Florida's primary Election Day is one month away, Sept. 10, and it promises to be largely overshadowed by the nation's observance of the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 Americans. This coincidence is bound to affect the public mood in ways that are hard to predict.

Martin Dyckman
Arguing alone won't make schools better
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush, patron of the school voucher law that a state judge declared unconstitutional last week, said he thinks the case "may end up in the United States Supreme Court." That's quite possibly so. But in that event, the governor would find himself in the uncomfortably awkward position of arguing that his own state's Constitution should be set aside. Conservative governors do not commonly disparage states' rights.

Don Addis
Underwear is not outerwear
If we're going to be that lazy about processing stuff, let's see those genius geneticists get cracking on shell-less eggs, scaleless fish, huskless corn, podless peas, rind-free oranges, pre-ground beef cattle and, while we're at it, poopless pets.