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Editorial
Regier's beliefs
Opponents and defenders alike should stop injecting irrelevant religious issues into the debate over the qualifications of new DCF Secretary Jerry Regier.

Editorial
Brown-Waite for Republicans
Republican voters in the 5th Congressional District will choose a candidate in the Sept. 10 primary to challenge the Democratic incumbent, Karen Thurman of Dunnellon.

Letters
Keep children at the center of debates on DCF
Re: In his vision, the church-state line blurs, Aug. 22.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
A lost ring, lots of steak, and the Bucs plus a bonus
The thieves who broke into Paul and Robin Kavan's car in front of their Palma Ceia Park home July 25 stole more than Paul's briefcase.

Jan Glidewell
Unpack your accents if y'all want to blend in
Sometimes when I go to paradise (that is, Colorado), I lose track of time and place, which after all is part of the attraction.

Gary Shelton
Can Florida State and Florida rely on their aura of invincibility?
The season opens Saturday. In years past, Florida would have been 8-0 already.

Elijah Gosier
New DCF chief faces conflicting priorities
The first thing you notice about the manifesto co-authored by Florida's new chief of the Department of Children and Families is that it doesn't waffle. You are not left wondering where the group whose philosophy it enumerates, the Coalition of Revival, stands.

 

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.