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Editorial
Fix WorkNet's problems
Any good being done by the welfare and job placement agency is being obscured by questions and suspicions surrounding its problem-plagued administration.

Editorial
Byrd's 48-hour rule
The Florida Legislature passed only 219 of the 2,427 bills, resolutions and memorials it considered during its regular session last spring. Do such numbers imply that members were careful and deliberate in doing the public's work? Alas, no. Nearly every important action was put off until the last week, leaving the House to deal with 90 bills on the last day.

Letters
Let people decide if our lawmakers deserve a raise
Re: Senators vote to raise their pay 3.1 percent, Nov. 14.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
A holiday parable of Dade City and how it saved its lovely lights
Not many communities outdo Dade City, the seat of Pasco County, in its observation of the holiday season.

John Romano
Gimme Five
TALK OF THE TOWN

Gary Shelton
Everything goes just right for Bucs
TAMPA -- On a perfect day, the sky seems a little bluer. The air is a little cooler, and the water in the bay is a little clearer.

 

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.