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Regier's religion and his job
Gov. Jeb Bush says that Jerry Regier's faith does not disqualify him for public office, and he is right. But Floridians have a duty to question how Regier's religious convictions might affect his leadership as the new head of Florida's child-welfare agency. After all, it was Regier -- not outside groups -- who first suggested, through his own writings and activities, that he is a man comfortable with living at the intersection of religion and public policy.

Editorial
Times Recommends: 'Dr. Andy' for Agriculture
Florida's agriculture commissioner will play a more important role in state government than many residents realize. Not only will the person in that job oversee agriculture and consumer programs, he or she will be one of three Cabinet members in the newly reorganized state government. So voters in the upcoming Democratic primary should look for a candidate with broad interests and a sense of balance. Andy Michaud comes closest to being that candidate.

Letters
Women athletes deserve a fair share of funding
Re: Sports quotas kill athletes' dreams, by Sam Bell, Aug. 23.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson
Big, ugly roads and bridges won't solve our traffic conundrums
No, I don't want to drive over or under an elevated expressway to get to the Gandy Bridge, and I don't want to drive over or under an elevated expressway to get from the bridge to any other place in Tampa. I don't want to enter the city that way. I don't want to leave the city that way. It will be ugly, and it won't make any sense.

Lucy Morgan
A tough cop gives up his badge to spend time with a pure heart
When law enforcement officers do something bad, we are quick to tell you about it.

Gary Shelton
Leaders too quick to bow
Now, I suppose, we cheer.

John Romano
Memo to the offense: Do something good
HOUSTON -- They say deception is the key to this offense and, by golly, the Bucs appear to have taken it to heart.

 

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.