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Editorial: Bush's shaky budget
"Take that! And that! And that! . . ."

Editorial: Say no for manatees
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is meeting in Fort Myers today to discuss a vital question: Should manatees be dropped from the state's endangered species list? It should be a very short session. After all, how long does it take to say no?

Letters: 'Equal protection' doesn't permit affirmative action
Re: University of Michigan's affirmative action program.

 

Columns today
John Romano: For Brad, the best days are still ahead
SAN DIEGO -- Brad Johnson sits in front of dozens of notepads and misperceptions. A handful of TV cameras and wrong assumptions.

Gary Shelton: Lynch tough despite his neighborhood
SAN DIEGO -- On the mean streets of Rancho Santa Fe, dreams come at a price.

Christopher Goffard, Tamara Lush: Fans behind bars may watch Bucs
It took the Bucs to bring network television into Hillsborough County jails.

Ernest Hooper: A precise surgeon; Bucs fever takes over
I got a chance to observe surgery at the Moffitt Cancer Center last week, and let me tell you, when they talk about surgeons being skilled, they're not joking.

 

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.