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Letters: Troops merit same attention as shuttle disaster
The shuttle disaster was a tragedy. My sympathies to the astronauts families. However, when we had a number of servicemen killed in action in Afghanistan, did our news networks go to full-time coverage? Were there complete sections in the newspaper devoted to those tragedies? If parades had been scheduled, would there have been an outcry to cancel them? Were ballgames canceled?

Editorial: Pasco GOP's failure
So much for that Republican mantra of increased accountability.

Editorial: Budget excess
President Bush's budget proposal backs big project ideas that will cause big deficits -- a burden for future generations.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Listening to the voice that asks: 'What if?'
I was there the night in 2000 when they stuck a needle in Bennie Demps' arm and put him down like a dog.

 

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.