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Editorial
The Legislature's deadly games
The Legislature shouldn't play games with the death penalty. But during the last legislative session, lawmakers played "gotcha" with an attorney at the Holland & Knight law firm who has been trying to ensure that prisoners on death row have competent legal representation.

Editorial
The missing debate
A war resolution will be approved this week, but President Bush and Congress still haven't given the nation a full airing of issues related to our Iraq policy.

Letters
Sen. Graham is helping to keep public informed
The Times' Oct. 6 interview with Sen. Bob Graham was an eye opener ("We can't look at Iraq in isolation'). I appreciated the direct and informative questions and answers. Hats off to Paul De La Garza and Mary Jacoby for trying to inform readers and get information previously unknown about the consequences of war with Iraq.

Bill Maxwell
In the Mideast, children are suffering
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Pity the children who are trapped in this current bloody conflict between the nation of Israel and the Palestinian diaspora. The Holy Land has become an unholy place, a shooting-gallery and a bombing range where kids are the innocent victims of adult insanity.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Bowl color switch a hit; Greco proves social savvy
The first thing you noticed when you arrived at Tuesday's Outback Bowl luncheon at the A La Carte Pavilion were the tan jackets worn by the bowl's board of directors.

Howard Troxler
Ever steady, never flashy Miranda adds spice to race
Charlie Miranda plods right along. The chairman of the Tampa City Council is definitely not a flashy or showy man, although it should be said that in conversation he is deadpan, bone-dry funny.

Bill Maxwell
In the Mideast, children are suffering
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Pity the children who are trapped in this current bloody conflict between the nation of Israel and the Palestinian diaspora. The Holy Land has become an unholy place, a shooting-gallery and a bombing range where kids are the innocent victims of adult insanity.

 

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.