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Bill Maxwell
A good church serves many needs
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- I am what is called a PK.

Editorial
Tossing McKay dollars
The address listed as the home of the Excellence Academy, a religious school in St. Petersburg, is an estate in foreclosure, with broken windows, overgrown vegetation, no electricity or water for at least two weeks, no license to operate a school, and citations for housing code violations. But, in a state with the largest and fastest growing school voucher program in the nation, two other facts are salient:

Editorial
A glaring injustice
Actor Winona Ryder walked into a Saks Fifth Avenue department store last year and walked out with $5,500 worth of tony clothes, without paying. She was convicted of the theft earlier this month, and prosecutors say they intend to ask for probation, community service and restitution. The punishment sounds about right for a first offense.

Letters
We should seek peaceful ways to solve problems
As a mother, as a teacher, as a Muslim-American, I appeal to all Americans during this holy month of Ramadan (month of fasting) to pursue a path of peace, not war. It is in the best interest of our country and world peace.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Relief for flora, fauna and Florida transplants
Autumn is supposed to come today. It is the 13th of November and it is high time. There is nothing subtle or gradual about the way we change our seasons. One morning there is sudden relief, that's all.

Ernest Hooper
Spin cycle, doughnut cravings, puck luck
After their string of successful business ventures, Bruno and Terri Zioerjen could have enjoyed the life of retirees and spent quiet days at home.

Robert Trigaux
Top privately held companies thriving
Up to speed on Florida's top publicly traded corporations? But how well do you know this state's other prominent companies?

Bill Maxwell
A good church serves many needs
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- I am what is called a PK.

Gary Shelton
Heisman hindsight
When it comes to the Heisman Trophy, we all seem to agree on one thing. We'd love to tell the Downtown Athletic Club where to stick it.

 

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.