Times recommends
Baker for mayor
St. Petersburg needs a leader with the skills to build on the neighborhood programs and economic development efforts already begun. Rick Baker has those skills.

Letters
Get the full story on treated wood
Re: The poison in your back yard, March 11.

Bill Maxwell
What's pathetic is Egan's judgment
I relish a good fight as much as the next fella.

Robyn E. Blumner
The truth about school vouchers
This column could be titled: "Anatomy of a Lie" or "How Republicans Feigned Concern for Disadvantaged Minorities as a Ploy to Underwrite Private School Education, A Florida Model."

Martin Dyckman
Cash-register justice offends
TALLAHASSEE -- Marriages of convenience aren't necessarily made in hell, but they have a way of winding up there. That would be a proper destination for the unholy union between the religious right and the so-called "tort reform" crowd, who are pushing legislation to politicize Florida courts and dismantle the Florida Bar.

Books
Telling history
The history of St. Petersburg has as many versions as the people who live there.