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Editorial: Playing with justice
In 1998, voters approved a measure that would put a uniform statewide court system in place by 2004. So far, the Florida Legislature has failed to act on it.

Editorial: Raiding your funeral fund
If you have already paid for your funeral and can still read this, may your remaining days be long and happy. But are you sure you'll get what you paid for?

Letters: Most parents just want a school in the neighborhood
Re: Will choice segregate schools?, Feb. 27.

 

Columns today
Ernest Hooper: Sanchez's 2nd half; makeovers for anchors
The odds against mayoral candidate Frank Sanchez are stacked as high as the pastrami on one of those giant sandwiches at the Lucky Dill Deli.

Mary Jo Melone: Finding his muse for stanzas of war protest
Peter Meinke is a poet. This makes him a kind of magician. He sees what other people don't see. He puts what he sees into words, rarely a lot of words, just some carefully chosen ones.

Jan Glidewell: Sorting out ABCs of our SOS agencies
Sleep well, Pasco residents. If the popcorn hits the fan tonight, you need to know that the HMPC is working hard on the Pasco County LMS and that the Hazard Mitigation Section of the DEM is keeping the FEMA Region IV posted so that they know that DMA2K is being complied with.

 

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.