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Editorial
Piniella's welcome home
The Devil Rays aren't paying Lou Piniella $3-million a year to throw his hat, rip up bases and kick dirt on home plate. But that passion is part of the Tampa baseball tradition that produced Piniella and so many other big leaguers. No doubt, the Rays are hoping thousands of new fans will cross the bridge when the 2003 season comes around, if only to see Ol' Lou blow a gasket.

Editorial
Minors still executed
It's disappointing that the U.S. Supreme Court would continue to allow minors to face the death penalty. If Amendment 1 passes, Florida may be next to allow it.

Letters
'Devious plans' comment reveals Bush's character
Re: Jeb Bush's "devious plans."

Bill Maxwell
Off-limit expressions of the times
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- As a long-time admirer of Bobby Bowden, Florida State University's down-home football coach, I wonder if the emotional and linguistic fallout from the Sept. 11 horrors and other recent tragedies have not caught up with the ol' head 'Nole.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
As you vote, remember Legislature's greatest hits
This morning, let's do precisely what many members of the Florida Legislature hope that we will not do.

Ernest Hooper
'Call' from Alex Sink; guide for electorate
When I heard Alex Sink speaking to me on my voice mail, I thought, "Wow, I didn't realize someone so famous even knew me." Not only is Sink the wife of gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride, but she's an accomplished banker and former head of Bank of America's Florida operations.

Robert Trigaux
In weak economy, stress strong
Are you more or less stressed at your job today than you were a year ago?

Bill Maxwell
Off-limit expressions of the times
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- As a long-time admirer of Bobby Bowden, Florida State University's down-home football coach, I wonder if the emotional and linguistic fallout from the Sept. 11 horrors and other recent tragedies have not caught up with the ol' head 'Nole.

Hubert Mizell
Dungy's Tampa ties still strong
WASHINGTON -- After an invigorating 4-1 start as Colts coach, Tony Dungy has lost two straight, to Bill Cowher's Steelers in Pittsburgh and Steve Spurrier's Redskins in Washington.

 

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.