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Editorial: The way we vote
The proposed changes to Florida's voting system are a good beginning, but the job of repairing our elections process is far from over.

Editorial: A multicultural milestone
America passed another multicultural milestone last week, as the number of people who identify themselves as Hispanic became the nation's largest minority group. While the numbers are estimates and based on differing interpretations of ethnicity, they shift the debate on race in America. They also focus the challenges for states such as Florida.

Letters: State budget may sacrifice lives for sake of a tax cut
Re: Bush: Tough times, tough budget, Jan. 22.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Setting sail against the tide of fans and the NFL
Some people will not believe her. Jan Platt really did watch the Super Bowl. Her son hosted a party at his house, and Platt attended.

Ernest Hooper: Mystery ads, mayoral game plans, a lucky bar
If everyone loves a mystery, then people should be particularly fond of a new set of billboards in town.

Jan Glidewell: And for you, Jamie, a nice word on the Buccaneers
Ihad just bought a 12-pack of beer for my own private Super Bowl celebration Sunday, when the clerk expressed her seemingly sincere wish that I have a wonderful day.

Gary Shelton: Most Super job? Gruden
SAN DIEGO -- Because he won their hearts.

John Romano: Bucs welcomed victims to woodshed
SAN DIEGO -- It was, in some sense, a metaphor for what they had been and what they hoped to become. A symbol, if you will, for a team that always sensed it did not measure up in the eyes of others.

Sara Fritz: 'Axis of evil' comment proves more powerful than expected
WASHINGTON -- This is the story of a nice little turn-of-phrase that grew into an international crisis.

Elijah Gosier: With rank comes responsibility
I had to talk to Cal Dennie.

 

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.