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Editorial
Trashing the public
Insidious efforts to undermine a landmark 1970 environmental law would restrict public review of projects planned on environmentally sensitive lands.

Editorial
Some trademark election stunts
The Libertarian Party may account for only one of every 800 voters in Florida, but our democracy rightly gives its candidates a place on the general election ballot. Not all of this year's entries deserve it.

Letters
Working people being forced out of medical care
A recent BayCare full-page ad indicated the hospital group could no longer accept health insurance coverage from this state's largest insurer; this affects an untold amount of working people. They decreed the medical supplement-related plans will not be affected. They offer the rest of us "out-of-network benefits."

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson
Tampa has big potential, but can city live up to it?
The news of a new residential tower going up downtown is no news at all in Vancouver, British Columbia. The first thing I noticed driving into downtown Vancouver last week were the soaring, stunning residential buildings, and they all looked like they were built yesterday.

Lucy Morgan
Voting problems can occur anywhere
We are not alone.

 

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.