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Editorial
St. Petersburg's big favor
When it comes to one local government doing another local government a favor, this is a big one. The city of St. Petersburg is asking the Pinellas County Commission to take title to the city-owned Tropicana Field and then lease the stadium back to the city at no cost. That way, St. Petersburg can avoid an annual $1.3-million tax bill, because the state Constitution does not allow county governments to be taxed.

Editorial
Ashcroft's control
Two Justice Department agencies relied upon for their impartiality should be left alone by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Letters
Service dog for epileptic is no nuisance
This letter is in response to the article concerning Dwayne Gillispie and his service dog, Dude (Must Dude, owner both go?).

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Monday's widows; Fergie's charms
I'm never surprised to see my friend Fred Skinner get excited about something. After all, he was president of the pep club in high school. But I never thought it would be jigsaws, routers and sanders that would get him psyched up.

Robert Trigaux
As bay area uses water from sea, nation watches
Tampa Bay: a technology trendsetter? Hard to believe, but bellwether states such as California and Texas are casting a critical eye at our metro area for some cutting-edge guidance about their own futures.

Jan Glidewell
Stocks are just like an accident: Stop, stare
Remember in the old movies when the really, really rich guys had stock market ticker-tape machines in their offices and could run over and check their financial situations any time?

Gary Shelton
Defeat represents fall from power
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The old man stood in the rain, his eyes glassed, his face showing the traces of bewilderment.

Patty Ryan
Finding treasures in trash
SATURDAY. Tampa Convention Center. We wait in a line of thousands, snaked around steel barricades. The announcer pleads for the safety of children. Then he begins the countdown.

 

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.