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Editorial
Panhandle child neglect coverup?
Department of Children and Families secretary Kathleen Kearney, who abruptly resigned last week, was criticized, and rightly so, for resisting outside review and cultivating an atmosphere intimidating to potential whistleblowers. But would DCF really go so far as to mislabel the cause of a child's death in order to avoid having to answer for failures in its investigation? Floridians deserve an answer in a disturbing case from the Panhandle -- and some assurance that what looks and smells like a coverup isn't.

Editorial
Election Day fears
New technology won't save voters from themselves, but we should approach Election Day with hope instead of dreading embarrassment after the last fiasco.

Letters
Progress changes our lives and the landscape as well
Re: Old Florida is falling to the developers, by Diane Roberts, Aug. 12.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Our own guys might just be more reliable for your charity event
Has anybody seen my friend Shaquille?

 

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.