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Editorial
Relief over Kings' troubling case
Escambia County Circuit Court Judge Frank Bell has finally injected some sanity into the case of Alex and Derek King.

Editorial
Clean water threat
Thirty years after the Clean Water Act became law, the Bush administration is attempting to weaken it by creating loopholes for polluters.

Letters
Panel shouldn't have role setting insurance rates
Florida homeowners insured by State Farm will see a whopping 85 percent increase in their rates over the next two years because a state arbitration panel approved the increase despite objections from the Department of Insurance.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper
A master taster weighs in on food and -- oh, right -- drink
My first inclination was to envy Jack Daniel's master taster Lynne Tolley and the folks from the famed distillery in Lynchburg, Tenn.

Howard Troxler
Only a razor may be able to cut difference in election predictions
Four years ago at election time, I entered into a contest of predicting the outcomes of various races. The result was my humbling defeat by Susan MacManus, the oft-quoted expert from the University of South Florida, who edged me out by a single prediction and therefore became the undisputed Potentate of Prognostication.

Gary Shelton
Brad just goes out and plays
TAMPA -- You play. That's all.

Sara Fritz
Even Republican spinmaster cautious about gains
WASHINGTON -- The word "intense" is not strong enough to describe the demeanor of Ken Mehlman, the White House political director. The New York Times recently said he has the "earnest manner of an over-caffeinated Eagle Scout."

 

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.