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Old Florida is falling to the developers
In Sunshine State, John Sayles' witty, bitter new movie about the rape of old Florida, three smart-mouth Yankee retirees on the Atlantic coast negotiate nine-irons and sand traps while philosophizing on the state as Paradise Sold.

Editorial
Cope's remorse
Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Charles Cope returns to the bench today after more than a year of paid leave, having "favorably impressed" a state judicial ethics panel with his "remorse."

Editorial
A devastating situation
African leaders should step up and help the people of Zimbabwe who are starving thanks to their president, whose mental state seems questionable.

Letters
Let our children go back to long, lazy summers
Re: Long, lazy days of . . ., oops! Not this summer, by Howard Troxler, Aug. 5.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Crist's a candidate with appeal shielded with a Teflon force field
Walk down the street with Charlie Crist in his hometown of St. Petersburg and you see something that not many Florida politicians have these days, except the governor himself.

John Romano
Gruden molds offense to fit personnel
LAKE BUENA VISTA -- You have never seen such a playbook. Large, meticulous, diverse. And, best of all, there have been pages ripped out.

Sara Fritz
Cut through media hype on Sept. 11
WASHINGTON -- Wag The Dog, the 1997 movie starring Dustin Hoffman, is often mentioned these days by those who suspect President Bush is planning a war against Iraq as a political tactic to help Republicans in the November elections.

 

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.