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Editorial: Terror Indictments: Leading vs. misleading
USF president Judy Genshaft made a well-reasoned argument for firing Sami Al-Arian, while Al-Arian and his supporters indulge in fantastical rhetoric.

Editorial: Let's hear more about how FCAT can help students
Re: Board member: No FCAT for my kids, by Stephen Hegarty, Feb. 23.

Editorial: From maverick to marginal
Mary Russell is a mother and teacher who believes Florida's high-stakes standardized testing is wrong for children and wrong for schools. But she is also a Pinellas School Board member, which makes her decision to have her children skip the FCAT indefensible.

Editorial: Involving the public in the process
Two good things came of the redesign of Tampa's new downtown arts museum. First, the place has a cleaner look. The imposing outdoor canopy is smaller, the creepy-crawler support poles are gone and the side facing the Hillsborough River is more open, elegant and inviting. But the bigger achievement is how the city took public opinion into account. The city created an environment where good ideas were incorporated in the final design. This was an important precedent to set as the city begins to build its cultural arts district.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Iorio's rise carries with it a whiff of destiny
I was looking at Pam Iorio's feet.

Christopher Goffard, Tamara Lush: Mom seizes the moment
Reporters and television photographers were clustered at Tampa and Laurel streets on Monday, awaiting news on a hand grenade and rifle found inside the Park Trammel building.

Gary Shelton: How much is that center in the window?
TAMPA -- You imagine them, two guys on a shopping trip, trying to maneuver their cart through the aisles.

Eric Deggans: Hussein is a fitting end to sweeps
What do you get when you plop a TV camera in front of a longtime military dictator who claims his people "have unanimously chosen" him to lead the country in an election where there were no other recognized opponents?

 

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.