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Editorial: More church-state entanglement
One of President Bush's domestic priorities is shifting tax dollars from secular social service organizations to faith-based groups. He has used his executive powers to create a special office in seven federal agencies to encourage and promote the flow of federal money to religiously affiliated organizations working in welfare-to-work programs, drug addiction recovery and other social programs. In pressing ahead, Bush has brushed aside questions about church-state entanglement.

Editorial: Smoking solutions
Consistent, reasonable application of the voter-approved workplace smoking ban is essential to its success -- and Floridians' health.

Letters: Nuclear question on Iraq has not been addressed
I've been following with intense interest the debate on your editorial pages, in columns and letters, about a war in Iraq. I wonder whether the president and his people are also paying attention. It often seems that they are hell-bent on war and nothing that Saddam Hussein does or does not do makes any difference.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Buckhorn carries his hopes door to door
Bob Buckhorn knocked on the front door of a long, low ranch house. The man who answered observed that Buckhorn must really want to be mayor of Tampa, if he could stand to be out on a day like Sunday.

Ernest Hooper: Award for civic duty; payoff for innocence
The first thing local developer Al Austin tried to do after winning the Tampa Metro Civitan Club's Outstanding Citizen of the Year award was give it away.

Jan Glidewell: This house is already a home and much more
If the sun was really rising Saturday over the sandy lot in the tiny subdivision just south of Homosassa, it was hard to tell.

Gary Shelton: The feel-good hit of the season
Before you decide to run to the store like Derrick Brooks with the ball under his arm, there is something you want to know.

Susan Taylor Martin: Hussein, big threat? Look around
Since Sept. 10, 2001, here's the number of Americans known to have been killed by Pakistanis: three.

 

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.