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Editorial
Illusion of merit pay for teachers
Teachers who work extra hard ought to get extra money, but Florida's new merit pay plan is little more than an illusion.

Editorial
Supervising elections
The election blunders can't be blamed on the governor or the secretary of state or the voting machines, but on incompetence that needs to be remedied by November.

Letters
Gov. Bush continues efforts to aid families
Re: A child-welfare plan left behind, editorial, Sept. 9.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Tales of poll food; new sites to dine
I've discovered I have some kindred spirits in the world of poll workers.

Robert Trigaux
Amid scandals, Florida execs warier
With a name like Fretwell, is it any surprise this guy works in the professional worrier's business of risk consulting and internal auditing?

Jan Glidewell
Notes of a time traveler on a quest for home
Journeys into the past are best taken by train, especially if it is a far distant past and is in the home state of the guy who wrote You Can't Go Home Again.

John Romano
Lightning GM has short time to win over fans
TAMPA -- Jay Feaster is speaking of credibility. The need for it, the search for it, the acquisition of it.

 

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.