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Editorial
Forcing digital television
Think your television set offers a clear picture and quality sound? That's not good enough for federal regulators.

Editorial
A hard enough decision
An adoption law that is supposed to protect the father when a child is put up for adoption would bring pain and public humiliation to the mother.

Letters
Child protection has changed little over the years
Re: Get serious about child safety, editorial,Aug. 13.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
All aboard Mickey's roller coaster of emotions
There are parents who are anti-Disney World. These may be divided into two groups.

Ernest Hooper
District shuffling; Wal-Mart bustling
While a lot of people are trying to figure out if County Commission candidate Ken Hagan missed a District 2 debate in Temple Terrace to go to a Bucs game, I'm just wondering if the next debate is going to be held where I live in Seffner.

Robert Trigaux
Bay area owners feel heat of distant coal operations
Sure, Tampa Bay businesses are well known for their expertise with retirees and tourists. But coal mining?

Gary Shelton
McCardell is a quick study as understudy
And so Kato said to Tonto, who repeated it to Pancho: What do you think of this Keenan McCardell?

 

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.