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Editorial: Shelve the state library move
With even Republican lawmakers adding their voices to the public's protests, Gov. Jeb Bush saw how poorly his bean counters had served him with their plot to close the state library. But the fallback plan revealed Tuesday is scarcely better and should be just as unwelcome in the Legislature.

Editorial: Saddam's choice
If he refuses to destroy Iraq's illegal Al Samoud 2 missiles, Hussein would undercut the argument of the Security Council's reluctant warriors.

Letters: Confronting Iraq has revealed our real friends
The Iraq crisis has indeed shown us who America's real friends are -- with the French, ignoring the graves at Normandy, leading the opposition to nipping the Iraq threat in the bud, just as they chose not to resist Adolf Hitler's march into the demilitarized Rhineland in 1936.

Bill Maxwell: A month for more than just rhetoric
Many of my black pundit colleagues have given up on Black History Month as a viable event. I have not.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler: Jeb plays tiddlywinks with clams and books
The governor knows best. He always knows best.

Robert Trigaux: Thorns persist but local employment picture rosier
Memo to job hunters: Tampa Bay's job market is expected to be more bullish this spring than in most other parts of Florida or the United States overall.

Bill Maxwell: A month for more than just rhetoric
Many of my black pundit colleagues have given up on Black History Month as a viable event. I have not.

John Romano: For one night UF finds greatness; now keep it
GAINESVILLE -- What you had here was a good team.

 

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.