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Bill Maxwell: No more excuses for misbehaving children
Two pots of flowers rest on the ground beneath a badly damaged tree on 54th Avenue S. near Seventh Street. Tire tracks, rutted deeply in the lawn, end at the tree. A pile of branches pruned from the tree lies near the curb.

Editorial: Friends in fighting terror
The capture of al-Qaida leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed marked an important success for the United States' post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism efforts. Mohammed's arrest also illustrated the importance of international cooperation in bringing terrorists to justice.

Editorial: The poem you can't see
Peter Meinke is one of our community's treasures: an incisive and accessible poet whose work often focuses on the joys and terrors of life in modern Florida. So Meinke was the perfect choice to commemorate in verse the shared birthday celebrations of St. Petersburg, Fla., (its 100th) and St. Petersburg, Russia (its 300th).

Editorial: A disgraceful hour
Gov. Bush was clear on Tuesday that he will make the implementation of voter-approved Amendment 9 as painful as possible, in hopes of forcing Floridians to take it back.

Letters: Al-Arian deserves due process on his firing, too
Re: Leading vs. misleading, Feb. 27.

 

Columns today
Adam C. Smith: Presidential politics, war cast shadow over Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE -- It may be the budget crisis of 2003, but looming over it for Jeb Bush is 2004.

Howard Troxler: Buckhorn divides -- but doesn't conquer
TAMPA -- Maybe it was the T-back swimsuit thing.

Robert Trigaux: No red-hot home market blues here
Remember when "house appreciation" meant stepping outside to admire your home?

Bill Maxwell: No more excuses for misbehaving children
Two pots of flowers rest on the ground beneath a badly damaged tree on 54th Avenue S. near Seventh Street. Tire tracks, rutted deeply in the lawn, end at the tree. A pile of branches pruned from the tree lies near the curb.

John Romano: It's sad to see him gamble it all away
He gambled.

 

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.