Editorials
A ruthless move
A House amendment looks like an effort to destroy public campaign financing in Florida.

End the water-wars mentality
Even after wars end, some combatants keep on fighting. Such is the case in Tampa Bay's water wars.

The suffering cannot be ignored
Federal law requires slaughterhouses to render cattle and pigs insensible to pain before they are slaughtered. Yet on a daily basis, still-conscious cattle and pigs are carved, gutted and skinned by workers told not to pause for the suffering of animals that are still alive when they meet the saws and knives. "They die piece by piece," said Ramon Moreno, a worker in a Washington slaughterhouse.

Letters
DARE strives to get students to think
Re: DARE's propaganda won't work with thinking children,

Bill Maxwell
Goliath Davis will need help from residents with the right attitude
I am glad that St. Petersburg Police Chief Goliath Davis is resigning to become deputy mayor for economic development in the city's so-called Challenge zone.

Robyn E. Blumner
ERA needed to help men
It's been 29 years since both houses of Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment, a change to the Constitution to guarantee equal rights under the law regardless of sex. The amendment was never ratified. It came up three short of the 38 states needed for passage, with Florida being one of those rejecting the amendment.

Philip Gailey
Some are confusing emblem of slavery with Southern pride
Mississippi voters last week rejected, by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, a proposal to remove the Confederate emblem from their state flag. I can't say I was surprised by that outcome, but I was disappointed to read that the Georgia county where I was born and raised felt the need to enlist on the side of those who confuse their Southern heritage with a flag that, for many Americans, symbolizes slavery and Ku Klux Klan terrorism.