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Editorial: The law of the land
The Legislature should think carefully before removing state law enforcement from the Miccosukee Indian Tribe's land -- where many non-Indians go to drink and gamble.

Editorial: A dog that bites
The stories about Jack Shreve's consumer battles have acquired legendary status over time, but most of them are true.

Editorial: Pinellas' pipe dreams
Though the Tampa Bay region has suffered a nasty political history over how and where to get enough water for its people to drink, one point of plumbing would seem unassailable: If the pipes break, then the rest doesn't matter.

Letters: Constitution protects rights of billboard owners
Our company's first inclination was that the misrepresentation printed in your editorials Billboard bullies (March 17) and Pinellas: Just sue us (March 22) were not worthy of a response. However, your readership deserves to know the truth. It is a shame that your bias against the billboard industry, a competitor for advertising dollars, continues to affect your ability to state the facts.

 

Columns today
Robert Trigaux: Spring training tour a bittersweet business
Hope springs eternal at the start of every 162-game season of Major League Baseball, even if that hope seems more of a trickle for those cheering on the still-young Tampa Bay Devil Rays on opening day.

Jan Glidewell: Loose lips, frog voice, stuffy nose, clear head
I have learned that sometimes the simplest statements have almost supernatural implications. Things like, "It's sure been a long time since I have had a cold."

John Romano: Longhorns keep adding snapshots
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Imagine it as a photo album. A collection of snapshots that tell the story of a family brought together by fate and happenstance.

 

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.