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Editorial
About that tobacco money
With their budgets tight in an election year, states are loath to raise taxes or cut programs to ease financial strains. But some governors and legislators haven't been reluctant to raid a fund that was supposed to have been earmarked for public health projects with long-term benefits.

Editorial
Seeking a DCF solution
A new Department of Children and Families chief might not make much of a difference unless Gov. Bush and lawmakers make resources available.

Letters
Manatee safety and moviemaking can go together
Your Aug. 9 editorial, Bad Boys vs. manatees, suggests that I am indifferent to manatee safety and that I am personally responsible for "placing them in harm's way." Nothing could be further from the truth.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
A little girl's shiny shoes shout out: Red alert!
My 4-year-old daughter's shoes attract attention wherever she goes. They are covered with red sparkles and around our house we call them her Dorothy shoes.

John Romano
Where's the Grieve we traded for?
ST. PETERSBURG -- Find the player with the bemused smile. Exchange a pleasantry or two and laugh at the banality of his jokes.

 

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.