Editorial
Trivializing a tragedy
It's bad enough that Gov. Jeb Bush would snicker like a homophobic school boy while discussing an ongoing tragedy as thoroughly humorless as the one involving still-missing foster child Rilya Wilson. But Bush's excuse -- that he didn't know a reporter was present in a meeting he considered private -- only made the episode worse.

Editorial
Yes on Amendment 4
Voters have a chance in November to give Florida's government-in-the-sunshine laws greater protection from the Legislature's annual assaults on them.

Letters
Integration efforts must continue
Re: Desegregation in reverse, by Jon East, Sept. 29.

Stephen Buckley
Reparations would mute racial dialogue
Spring, 1988. I'm a junior in college, in an ethics seminar where we struggle through a passel of hard issues: Is war ever justified? Is abortion moral? Is affirmative action ethical?

Bill Maxwell
The reality of racism 40 years ago
-- The chant of a white mob in Mississippi

Martin Dyckman
The governor plays rough
TALLAHASSEE -- It has been no secret in this company town that Jeb Bush and his buddies play rough. Now, the world knows, thanks to the governor having boasted of "devious plans" and other strategies to a group of Panhandle politicians.

Robyn E. Blumner
Discrimination in federal hiring now works against white males
As a young person in Glen Cove, N.Y., I would dutifully deposit money earned babysitting into a passbook savings account at the local bank. Year after year, the same women would be behind the teller's counter registering my deposits. But the male tellers -- when there were any -- would quickly rotate out. As my mother explained, the men were being promoted into the bank's management, moving ahead of women with far more seniority and experience.