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Editorial: Explore port's potential
Tampa's port is equipped and geographically positioned to capitalize on Cuba. It should be at the forefront instead of lagging behind, fighting someone else's old political battles.

Editorial: The Mouse's way
Disney's demand that the high-speed rail bypass other Orlando attractions should be rejected, no matter how much power the company wields.

Letters: FCC is right to review phone price policies
Re: Hold the phone, editorial, Jan. 19.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson: As pioneers of lofts open homes, new views arise
It's exciting to see the birth of a neighborhood, and that's what was offered last Sunday when loft-dwellers opened up their homes and work spaces in the Channel District. Actually, it might be more accurate to say the conception of a neighborhood, because what is not yet there is as intriguing as what it is.

John Romano: Gruden right investment for present, future
SAN DIEGO -- The one-year warranty on Jon Gruden is about to expire.

Gary Shelton: This season, it all seems attainable
SAN DIEGO -- Odds are, the world does not share his vision.

Steve Bousquet: Library is a character in Florida budget plot
Something is very curious here.

 

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.