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Editorial: Dangerous deal-breaking
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is trying to break a deal that was struck with Democratic lawmakers to alleviate their concerns about the USA Patriot Act, the law passed soon after the Sept. 11 terror attacks giving the Justice Department sweeping new surveillance and wiretapping powers.

Editorial: A call to save the courts
A functioning court system is a necessity, not a luxury, for dispensing justice in a civilized society -- a fact the House and Senate budgets cruelly ignore.

Letters: Organize now to assure quality in all our schools
Re: Attracting the right mix?, April 18.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Can't afford your drugs? Here, have a Band-Aid
Those Republicans in Tallahassee keep living down, down, down to the stereotype so widely held about them -- that they're mean, cheap and, when it comes to the little guy, pitiless.

Jan Glidewell: Another postponed pleasure is forever lost
I'm sad to say that Cypress Gardens came and went -- and I never went.

John Romano: Hi, my name is baseball, and I have a problem
In the commissioner's office, they are outraged. In the clubhouse, they are concerned. In the bleachers, they are ordering another round.

 

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.