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Editorial: High-stakes testing
Testing is an unfair and limited measure of success when it is the sole indicator of promotion for Florida's third-graders and seniors.

Editorial: An uncertain future for DCA
In appointing a respected Cabinet aide to head the Department of Community Affairs, Gov. Jeb Bush invites a question of intent. Is Colleen Castille supposed to take charge of growth management or preside over its demise?

Letters: Universal health care can come with drawbacks
Re: Universal care makes economic sense, Not supply and demand, Health care not an option and Health care for life, letters, Dec. 29.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Iorio's race began with little steps over years
Gerald White remembers.

Ernest Hooper: Food and family, bringing in the greens
I guess Natalie Khawam and her twin sister, Jill Kelley, believe you have to look good to cook good.

Jan Glidewell: We said send in the clones, not the clowns
It doesn't take much during a slow news season to get every talking head in the news biz blabbering at high speed.

John Romano: Saves don't cut it as a Hall criteria
The hour is late. The outcome is near.

Adam C. Smith: GOP passes on politics, goes for spectacle
TAMPA -- Of all the arguments for holding the Republican convention in Tampa, here was one of the weakest: It would help ensure the GOP wins Florida's 27 electoral votes.

 

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.