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Editorial
A sensible policy for deputies
In the wake of a tragic shooting, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has adopted a new rule that should have been policy all along: Deputies will not put themselves in harm's way by standing or moving in front of a vehicle.

Editorial
It's the schools, stupid
By an overwhelming margin, Democratic voters in a statewide poll say improving public education should be the top priority for the governor and Legislature.

Letters
Put patriotism into action: Get out and vote
Re: Patriotism and the vote.

Bill Maxwell
Americans squeamish over horse meat
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- If you relish cheval burgers with your onion rings and cold brew, do not look to menus in American restaurants. Sure, you can find horse meat in most states, but you will be hard-pressed to hear chefs trumpeting this fact.

 

Columns today
Robert Trigaux
With market fall ranks of millionaires
Did you hear they're making a sequel to what was TV's hottest game show?

Ernest Hooper
Mayor passes the Cher test; Ybor gets busy on image
Anyone who thinks entertainment and politics don't go together has never met Cher.

Bill Maxwell
Americans squeamish over horse meat
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- If you relish cheval burgers with your onion rings and cold brew, do not look to menus in American restaurants. Sure, you can find horse meat in most states, but you will be hard-pressed to hear chefs trumpeting this fact.

John Romano
Course, women's group master grandstanding
I fear for Hootie Johnson. He is caught, I am afraid, between duty and honor. Between right and wrong. Between a grown-up name and a belch.

 

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.