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Editorial: Improving the Olympic image
Before its own history of underhanded dealing was bumped off the front page by the likes of Enron executives and the pedophile priests, the U.S. Olympic Committee was a fast-rising star in the annals of sleaze in high places. The Olympic image took another hit this month when the USOC's embattled CEO resigned over misconduct allegations. Lloyd Ward had lost credibility and he had to go. But his departure stems from a larger problem engulfing the Olympic movement.

Editorial: The mayor's pay
The job of St. Petersburg mayor carries with it a great deal of responsibility. The mayor oversees the everyday operations of the city, with its 250,000 residents, more than 3,000 employees and nearly $500-million budget. Yet the pay -- $100,000 a year -- hasn't changed since 1993, when the city turned to the strong-mayor form of government.

Editorial: Les nincompoops
Instead of dealing seriously with the Iraq crisis, too many members of Congress are busy banning french fries and exploiting the memory of our D-day heroes.

Letters: Problems with troubled youth transcend race
Re: No more excuses for misbehaving children, March 5.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Cops aren't shrinks; jails aren't hospitals
Alan Houseman is a statistic now.

Gary Shelton: For Bucs, is it banking on the future or bust?
Perhaps the rent will not come due after all.

 

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.