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Editorial
Change policy on deadly force
Two similarly disturbing police shootings in Tampa call for a change in police policy on the use of deadly force. On Oct. 31, a Tampa police officer shot a homeless man who was armed with a putty knife. A few days later, a veteran Hillsborough sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man who was armed with knives and confronted by at least two deputies. The state attorney will review whether these officers acted within their broad authority to use deadly force. But a more relevant question is why more of these situations can't be defused through less violent means.

Editorial
Squeezing the IRS
The Bush administration has hobbled the IRS with stingy funding, allowing tax evaders -- particularly wealthy ones -- to escape paying a fair share.

Letters
Let's set the record straight about manatees
Re: Manatee advocates say Bush let them down, Oct. 18.

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell
In war, it's the young called on to sacrifice all
Yesterday's holiday, in case you missed it, was Veterans Day, although more minds were probably on beer and beaches than were on veterans.

John Romano
Searching for strut of champs
TAMPA -- They are new at this, so give them time. After all, it's not easy being this young and learning to be that arrogant.

Susan Taylor Martin
Consider Saskatchewan, USA
TORONTO -- Even as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, it turns out there might be an easier plum for the picking right on our continent: Canada.

 

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.