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Editorial: Taking faith to a fault
President Bush is so intent on sending federal tax dollars to religious organizations involved in charity work that he bypassed Congress last week and signed an executive order allowing church groups to receive public monies even if they maintain discriminatory hiring practices.

Editorial: Gore's departure
By giving up his own presidential ambitions, Al Gore has opened new possibilities for the Democrats and has created a better chance for the political debate to move forward.

Letters: Voters approved smaller classes, not more excuses
Re: We shouldn't raise taxes to reduce class size, letter from state Sen. Mike Fasano, Dec. 12.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Dreaming the possible for streets of broken hope
Rick Baker's burgundy Ford Explorer is the kind of car you needed for a day like the one we spent together last week.

Jan Glidewell: Authentic cannon cast for re-enactment role
You have to live, for just the shortest while, inside the heads of historical re-enactors to realize how important authenticity is to them.

 

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.