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Bill Maxwell: Sharon's re-election would be bad news
As I write, Israelis are trudging to the polls to elect a prime minister. Polls indicate that Ariel Sharon will be re-elected. Sharon's re-election is the worst thing that can happen for Israel, Palestinians and American taxpayers.

Editorial: Super Bowl XXXVII: Celebrating like champions
The Tampa Bay Bucs showed the rest of the world how to win, and Buc fans showed the rest of the world how to celebrate victory.

Editorial: A matter of basic due process
One of the most disturbing aspects of the Bush administration's war on terrorism is the way it has kept some suspects from the legal system. Unlike John Walker Lindh, Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber, who were all duly charged and given access to lawyers, the government is keeping two Americans in military brigs, without formal charges and cut off from all communication with the outside world. Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla are both being held as "enemy combatants" by the Defense Department. It says it can hold them indefinitely. The department maintains that Hamdi and Padilla should be given no opportunity to rebut the government's allegations against them, a startling position that essentially calls for the suspension of the Bill of Rights.

Editorial: Deadbeat legislators
Donors to our state's public universities are getting a losing deal with state government not holding up its end of the bargain.

Letters: Malpractice solution: Target negligent doctors
Re: Malpractice solution, editorial, Jan. 22.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler: As Greco age ends, council needs to stir from slumber
TAMPA -- The Tampa City Council, in the waning years of former Mayor Sandy Freedman's time in office, showed signs of a growing, ornery independence. The council pressed for more of its own staff, more watchdog powers.

Mary Jo Melone: Passion stirs heart of the city
They came.

Robert Trigaux: In Davos, the A+ list lets optimism give way to angst
While we bask in the glow of a Super Bowl football championship, global business leaders prefer to punt at the Super Bowl of business -- better known as the World Economic Forum, which winds up this week in Davos, Switzerland.

Bill Maxwell: Sharon's re-election would be bad news
As I write, Israelis are trudging to the polls to elect a prime minister. Polls indicate that Ariel Sharon will be re-elected. Sharon's re-election is the worst thing that can happen for Israel, Palestinians and American taxpayers.

John Romano: Kid gloves? Maybe later
TAMPA -- It has looked better. Generally speaking, the Lombardi Trophy is not smudged with a city's collective fingerprints.

 

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.