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Editorial: A toppling regime
The joyous welcome given American troops in Baghdad created memorable images that should affect worldwide opinion of the war in Iraq.

Editorial: A compromise on cross burning
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold a Virginia cross-burning statute is a decision free speech advocates can live with.

Letters: Racial preference is incompatible with equal rights
Re: The progress defense, editoral, April 5.

 

Columns today
Christopher Goffard & Tamara Lush: Crime victim's widow given restored Olds
Arnold Klotsch, a 45-year-old carpenter, was shot to death last month as he followed two robbers running from a Town 'N Country liquor store. Klotsch was in his family's only car, a 1995 Mercury, when he was shot, and the car was damaged.

Ernest Hooper: Growth in East Tampa; slow times for charities
Pam Iorio's hiring of Ed Johnson as head of her new East Tampa Development & Community Lending department indicates economic revitalization of that area will be a priority in her administration.

Gary Shelton: There's no Watson to Tiger's Nicklaus
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- One man. One tournament. What's so hard about that?

Eric Deggans: Statue upended; networks tremble
In a media-drenched war where TV images have sometimes seemed as important as the real thing, Wednesday brought us a picture that seemed to say it all.

Susan Taylor Martin: Fight ahead is for a stable Iraq
Despite the joyous scenes in Baghdad on Wednesday, American and British forces face a dangerous, critical period.

Mary Jo Melone: Lawmakers abandon our old, ill and poor
It's hard to believe that the government could be so casual, so callous.

 

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.