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Editorial
Ashcroft becomes what we feared
For at least six decades, the Justice Department has interpreted the Second Amendment's right to bear arms as pertaining to a state-organized militia.

Editorial
The land villain
Although Don Connolly acted within the law in obtaining property, the way he has taken advantage of homeowners should not be allowed to happen again.

Letters
Don Connolly appears to be in need of shaming
Re: View for Sale: $30,000, May 14.

 

Columns today
Darrell Fry
Perfect models of confidence, relentless drive
TAMPA -- They are gone now, off somewhere doing whatever teenagers do on Saturdays in the spring. Around town, folks undoubtedly are talking about them and what happened Friday night, about that unimaginable fifth inning and that forgettable seventh that finally nudged Bloomingdale from the Class 6A state baseball semifinals 11-7.

Sandra Thompson
Tearing down school rips fabric of community
This week I drove past George T. Washington Junior High School, the next on the list of historic school buildings to be torn down, a hole left forever in the lives of its former students.

Lucy Morgan
The maps are drawn, so are the battle lines
It's clear that Florida's redistricting fight is far from over.

 

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.