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Editorial
Coziness at the PSC
Another round of meddling by legislative leaders has cast a cloud over nominations for the commission responsible for regulating Florida's utilities.

Editorial
Disorienting headlights
Those blazing bluish-white beams barreling down the highway toward you aren't from an oncoming UFO or a runaway train. But for some drivers, they can be just as disorienting and potentially dangerous.

Letters
Detention seems a small thing after Sept. 11
Re: Detention, ostracism over an Arabic name sour American dreams, Sept. 16.

Bill Maxwell
Better not mess with Texas' gun laws
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Tony Sanchez and John Sharp have one essential thing in common with Rick Perry and David Dewhurst besides their all being Texans running for office. Sanchez and Sharp are the Democratic candidates running for governor and lieutenant governor. Perry and Dewhurst are the GOP candidates running for the same offices.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Help that's needed; a Dudley who did right
The bank robber didn't show a weapon or threaten any lives.

Robert Trigaux
Tech a tough sell in today's economy
What's the best way to hush a room of noisy tech managers?

Bill Maxwell
Better not mess with Texas' gun laws
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Tony Sanchez and John Sharp have one essential thing in common with Rick Perry and David Dewhurst besides their all being Texans running for office. Sanchez and Sharp are the Democratic candidates running for governor and lieutenant governor. Perry and Dewhurst are the GOP candidates running for the same offices.

Gary Shelton
Let's replace apathy with anger
Somebody ought to be ticked off.

 

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.