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Editorial
For Hillsborough School Board
Hillsborough County schools face a number of tremendous challenges ahead. The next board will institute a school choice plan that replaces 40 years of court controlled desegregation. The school district is strained financially because of suburban growth, its student population is more diverse and needy and the administration must do a better job of responding to calls for openness and accountability. Whoever wins will guide the schools through a critical time. School Board races are nonpartisan and open to all voters.

Editorial
Play ball for kids' sake
In Pinellas, city and county officials can both come out winners if they cooperate to provide recreational parks for children.

Letters
Smaller classes will exacerbate education woes
Wow! I finally agree with Jeb Bush on something -- the class size amendment.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
Domestic misery; a golden toe prize
By definition, domestic relates to American values we hold dear: home, family and country.

Howard Troxler
Willy-nilly meddling gums up our Constitution
You will be asked in the Nov. 5 election to insert a requirement for smaller public-school class sizes into our state Constitution.

Gary Shelton
A dangerous time for an ugly offense
TAMPA -- Sometimes, you just have to take a stand. So here goes.

Sara Fritz
Secrecy on Iraq is disservice to the public
WASHINGTON -- Polls show more than half of all Americans support President Bush's plan to attack Iraq -- as long as the United Nations has sanctioned it -- and many of them say they are paying close attention to the debate.

John Romano
Gimme five 

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.