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Hyde Park's less charming
Two stories this week paint the clearest picture yet of how much Tampa's Hyde Park has changed. The makers of Wonder Bread will close their 80-year-old bakery, putting an end to the pleasure of walking the neighborhood to the smell of fresh-baked bread. Meanwhile a mile or so away, on the western edge of Hyde Park, developers are looking to build a suite hotel on an increasingly crowded, two-lane road. Howard Avenue at Swann already looks like Carrollwood, so some must figure: Why not make the transformation complete?

Editorial: Kissinger goodbye
The former secretary of state's departure gives the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks a chance to bolster its credibility.

Letters: Assessment of media biases misses reality
Re: Media's tilt is really toward the right, Dec. 6.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson: A cry for help while we all sit and watch
Last week I was out of touch with my daughter for almost 48 hours. She lives in North Carolina, and an ice storm had knocked out her phone and, I read in the news, her electricity -- along with that of a million and a half other people. (Yes, like every living human under 30, she has a cell phone. Naturally, it wasn't charged.) It was a terrible storm -- worse, I read, than the hurricane in 1989.

Lucy Morgan: Democrats retreat into secrecy, obscurity
Since Republicans took over the Legislature in 1996, Democrats have had trouble learning how to be a minority. (Republicans haven't done all that well at being a majority either -- but that's a story for another day.)

 

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.