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Editorial: The developer-mayor
Though his administration's ethics were questionable at times, Tampa Mayor Dick Greco can leave office next week proud that his efforts changed the city's landscape for the better.

Editorial: Set standards for capital cases
If defendants in capital cases were always provided with effective attorneys during their initial trials, a substantial amount of postconviction legal wrangling could be avoided. The years spent appealing death sentences often focus on the paltry and faulty defense put on by the accused's lawyer. But the question of what is constitutionally required for an adequate defense remains murky.

Editorial: The old ballgame
It's important, with all the pain and anxiety from the war, to appreciate normalcy when the opportunity arises. Baseball season opens this weekend, and with it, the chance to focus on a pastime that hasn't changed as much as our own lives.

Letters: Cancellation of Sarandon event isn't censorship
Re: Charity calls off event with Sarandon, March 27.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson: Reminders of the war infuse our familiar city
It was a weird week, and once again Tampa seemed to be smack in the center of the current geopolitical situation.

Lucy Morgan: Driven by Byrd, House may end up in the ditch
The Florida House of Representatives is becoming an island that talks only to itself.

John Romano: That football seems to be kind of round
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- By Texas standards, the crowd was rather early.

 

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.