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Editorial notebook: The Wooly Bully pulpit
Members of the Hernando County Commission were surprised this week to learn that former President Lyndon Johnson was not the composer of the famous civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome. For many years, the commission read an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day proclamation that gave LBJ credit for writing the song, which actually was composed by Charles Albert Tindley, a Methodist minister, more than 100 years ago.

Editorial: Tallahassee's fanatics
House members irresponsibly rejected federal funds that would have paid for programs to improve Floridians' health and protect the environment.

Editorial: Mayoral candidates in a spin
Tampa's leading mayoral candidates are talking a lot about money and polls but little about real ideas. It's as if they've conspired to delude the voters that the next four years, and possibly eight, will be flush like the '90s under Mayor Dick Greco. This is a dishonest way to enter office. Whoever wins in March will face immediate choices -- between investing in downtown and in other commercial districts, among competing neighborhood groups and between the city's parochial interests and the larger regional ones. It's time they dropped the puffery and talked specifics.

Letters: Nation needs Bob Graham to seek presidency
Re: Graham would make Florida proud, by Diane Roberts, Jan. 13.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler: Philadelphia, N.J.: Iggles, cheese steaks and cheese steak eaters
(Reprinted with permission from Howard's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the United States, 2003 edition.)

Jan Glidewell: Easier today but wrong as ever to steal ideas
It would be so easy.

John Romano: A stinking hostile dump
PHILADELPHIA -- This place has a vibe. A definite historical tone. Stand on the field and you can sense it. Sit in the bleachers and you can feel it. Walk into the corridors and, whew, you can smell it.

 

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.