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Imagining Cuba after the embargo
HAVANA -- To visit Fidel Castro's Cuba, especially as a Yankee, is to enter an entrancing nest of contradictions:

Editorial: Harsh judgment
The federal courts do not suffer from a crisis of leniency. Still, a measure proposed by Rep. Tom Feeney and passed by Congress undermines judicial discretion and imperils reasonable sentencing.

Editorial: Harsh judgment
The federal courts do not suffer from a crisis of leniency. Still, a measure proposed by Rep. Tom Feeney and passed by Congress undermines judicial discretion and imperils reasonable sentencing.

Editorial: Chemical over-reaction
There are situations in which a school resource officer would be justified in using pepper spray in a crowded middle school cafeteria -- to stop a fight involving knives, for example. But it's hard to understand why School Resource Officer Edith Darling felt the need to unleash the painful chemical at Pinellas Park Middle School to break up a fight between two sixth-grade boys.

Letters: We should get full reports on horrors of war
Re: "Mindful" and bloodless war coverage, April 17.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson: Bigger isn't what made Bayshore Beautiful
As I drove up a street in Bayshore Beautiful, a block west of where I used to live, I felt like I was driving through a mountain pass, there were so many big, new houses on small lots on both sides of the street.

Ernest Hooper: The Glazers had us going -- hook, line and pirate ship
There's never been a better time to be a Bucs fan, and there's never been a worse time to be a Glazer family supporter.

Gary Shelton: St. Louis is gaining stature
TAMPA -- He is the smallest man on the ice, and he is a giant.

 

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.