St. Petersburg Times Online: Opinion

Editorial
Candidate reply: Chris Yeazell
The Times offers candidates not recommended by its Editorial Board an opportunity to reply. Here is one of those replies.

Editorial
A worthy charity
Most Tampa Bay residents are probably aware of the United Way and the fact that it does charitable work. But they may not realize that all of the money spent on programs that help children, the elderly and our most vulnerable neighbors stays in the communities where it was collected. So a Pinellas or Hillsborough County resident who gives to the United Way will see that money at work close to home.

Editorial
A child-welfare plan left behind
Here's a little election-year pop quiz: Which gubernatorial candidate said the following about Florida's child-welfare system?

Editorial
Cloudy business climate
Florida should create a warmer climate for businesses, particularly those in technology, or the talent and expertise will travel elsewhere.

Letters
Airlines should focus on serving their customers
Re: U.S. Airways: Use or lose cheap tickets, Aug. 28.

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Looking back on 9/11, a 'Cosmo' cameo, columnist hits the Web
New Yorker Mark Lubell remembers everything about Sept. 11, including the weather.

Gary Shelton
Bucs' new start could not have gone worse
TAMPA -- If you can tell one thing from the way the Bucs opened the season, it is this.

Hubert Mizell
Spurrier does what he usually does: win
LANDOVER, Md. -- Unlike with the Florida Gators, he threw no sun visor in anger, but Steve Spurrier paid a bloody price.

Sara Fritz
Congress' role in war is more for show
WASHINGTON -- When it comes to matters of war, Congress is almost useless.

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.