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Bill Maxwell: Times have changed for black students
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- I was grading essays a few days ago when an African-American student walked into my office. Her expression was grim as she asked about her final grade.

Editorial: Pinellas' economic future
Government forums on economic issues don't usually capture the public's imagination, but the meeting taking place this week in Pinellas County should be an exception. While the title is ponderous -- Redevelopment Opportunities Summit for the Pinellas Community -- the purpose is to the point: to begin planning for the county's economic future after buildout.

Editorial: A Lott to apologize for
The Senate Republican leader's praise of Strom Thurmond's racist past deserves a strong rebuke from other Republicans in Washington.

Letters: Bush's policies are robbing the nation's future
Re: Bush picks railway chief for treasury, Dec. 10.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler: These rookies have ideas of their own
Impressive, large poinsettias, from the horticulture and floral marketing students of Seminole Vo-Tech, graced the desks of the Pinellas School Board on Tuesday for its first full meeting since the election.

Ernest Hooper: Grandma's cooking; potshots at Tampa
Willie D. Wheeler is not unlike most grandmothers -- she just loves to cook.

Robert Trigaux: Snow's stands seem to change like the weather
Whatever primal instinct attracts people to mud wrestling and demolition derbies must be what makes corporation bashing such good sport. -- 1996 remark by CSX chairman John W. Snow, nominated this week by President Bush to replace Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

Bill Maxwell: Times have changed for black students
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- I was grading essays a few days ago when an African-American student walked into my office. Her expression was grim as she asked about her final grade.

Gary Shelton: Sherman slips from his perch
Here on the high moral ground, the footing is kind of slippery.

Susan Taylor Martin: Local Sri Lankan becomes envoy
ST. PETERSBURG -- If you are of a certain age, you might remember when the lush tropical island off the tip of India was called Ceylon and was mainly known for growing some of the world's finest tea.

 

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.