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Editorial
More fuel-efficiency is needed
Americans are getting a confusing message on automobile mileage. "By driving a more fuel-efficient vehicle, a vehicle powered by alternative fuels, or even by driving our current vehicles more efficiently, we can all do our part to reduce our nation's reliance on imported oil and strengthen our energy security," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham recently announced.

Editorial
A larger opportunity lost
Only five months ago, after an anguished debate, America's Roman Catholic Church adopted a sex abuse policy with moral clarity. Any priest who committed abuse -- past, present or future -- would be removed from the active ministry, and bishops would be compelled to deal more openly with crimes their own secrecy had helped perpetuate.

Editorial
More seaport security
The compromise security bill for seaports is a useful start in helping to craft security plansthat address modern threats.

Letters
Don't let a few problems tarnish McKay program
Re: Tossing McKay dollars, editorial, Nov. 13.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson
Old church's new offering is a lifestyle of loftiness
It's just like me to miss the biggest party in town, but a week ago Friday I was not among the hundreds and hundreds of people packed into the historic Tyer Temple in Tampa Heights. Oh, we could hear the music and see the people standing on the porch with the huge white columns, festively done up in multicolored lights. But we didn't go in, because we couldn't find a parking space.

Lucy Morgan
Can Nelson and Graham rescue state Democrats?
Stop the presses. We've discovered a Democrat who might run for governor and have a chance of winning!

 

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.