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Editorial
Reno's graceful concession
From the start, on the porch of her wood-frame Miami bungalow, Janet Reno showed she was not about to run anyone else's idea of a campaign. She rejected the help of her party, drove her red Ford Ranger across Florida and was greeted like a movie star whenever she stopped. Her campaign was surprisingly light on money and television commercials, and her answers weren't always "straight talk," but she was clearly her own woman.

Editorial
A good start at DCF
Jerry Regier is moving past the controversy over his appointment by focusing on finding missing children and finding adequate funding for his troubled agency.

Letters
Renewing Iraq arms inspections is the best option
Now that Saddam Hussein has expressed willingness to allow renewed weapons inspections, the Bush administration should pounce on the opportunity. Further delay by urging the United Nations to adopt a new resolution only stands to further polarize U.S. allies and worse, to allow for a retraction of the offer from Iraq.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone
In other places, women run at the top
Janet Reno came so achingly close. At the end, just 4,800 votes stood between her and the Democratic nomination for governor.

John Romano
Rough going
Rookie Boo Weekeley, a hard-awinging country boy, struggles with new courses and cold attitudes

Tampa Uncuffed
Exploring a fired police officer's troubled track record
When Yolanda Black, a 29-year-old Tampa Police officer, was fired last week, she had compiled quite a history in her three years on the force:

 

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.