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No, Dr. Seuss hasn’t been ‘canceled’ | Column
The truth is, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, like Aunt Jemima and the Washington Redskins, has simply undergone a belated but needed process of self-reflection. They woke up and smelled the 2021.
How to give back $500 million in Hillsborough transportation dollars? Look to the sales tax rate | Letters
Mailers promoting a 1% sales tax for Hillsborough County residents to fund transportation projects, which voters approved in 2018 but the state Supreme Court struck down late last month.
Here’s what readers are saying in Sunday’s letters to the editor.
Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
Does Bill Gates' new book really contain the answer to solving climate change?
Here’s some interesting commentary from the opposite poles of the political spectrum.
‘Don’t give away our water’ is letter of the month | Letters
Divers and swimmers enjoy Ginnie Springs in High Springs in August 2016.
Here’s what readers are saying in Saturday’s letters to the editor.

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  1. No, Dr. Seuss hasn’t been ‘canceled’ | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Dr. Seuss storybooks
  2. How to give back $500 million in Hillsborough transportation dollars? Look to the sales tax rate | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    Mailers promoting a 1% sales tax for Hillsborough County residents to fund transportation projects, which voters approved in 2018 but the state Supreme Court struck down late last month.
  3. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Does Bill Gates' new book really contain the answer to solving climate change?
  5. ‘Don’t give away our water’ is letter of the month | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    Divers and swimmers enjoy Ginnie Springs in High Springs in August 2016.
  6. Editorial Cartoons for Saturday & Sunday from Times Wire Services
    Mar. 5• Opinion
  7. Florida’s minimum mandatory sentences need a hard look | Editorial
    Mar. 5• Opinion
    Kyle Moran poses for a portrait in Tampa on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Only a few years since freed from prison, Moran may need to return. He was sentenced to life in prison at 16 after shooting a man during an attempted armed robbery. In 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court found it unconstitutional for juveniles to face life sentences so Moran was released after serving 24 years in prison, but the state recently appealed his re-sentencing was unconstitutional and he may need to return.
  8. Why did it take so long for Florida to ban invasive pythons? | Editorial
    Mar. 5• Opinion
    An invasive Burmese python in a defensive posture.
  9. Domestic violence rose more than 8% during lockdowns | Column
    Mar. 5• Opinion
    Community Action Stops Abuse used yard signs last year to raise awareness of domestic abuse.
  10. Restricting access to sex ed in Florida schools will put young people at risk | Column
    Mar. 5• Opinion
    According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data, a nationwide survey of in-school youth, 16% of Hillsborough County teens are sexually active in ninth grade, and a significant portion of kids are active at an even earlier age. By the time our youth are in 12th grade, well over half are sexually active. More alarmingly, of those who are sexually active, 42% had sex without a condom and 74% did not use any effective contraception during their last sexual intercourse.
  11. America’s immigrant essential workers need a path to legal status | Column
    Mar. 5• Opinion
    In February 2019, Rubycellia Salnero, Anthony Salnero, 6 months, Angel Salnero, 9, of Tampa pray at a special church service at the Nativity Catholic Church in Brandon. The Diocese of St. Petersburg held a prayer vigil for migrants and refugees led by Rev. Gregory L. Parkes, Bishop of St. Petersburg, with an estimated 1,000 people in attendance from around the community.
  12. Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
    Mar. 4• Opinion
  13. Tampa Bay’s step toward better regional express bus service | Editorial
    Mar. 4• Opinion
    The Howard Frankland Bridge heading into Tampa during an evening commute. SKIP O'ROURKE | Times
  14. How different the world looks when you and your spouse are vaccinated | Column
    Mar. 4• Opinion
    Barry and Thia Golson, newly vaccinated, went on an outing to the petting zoo with their two granddaughters.
  15. What is the COVID-19 end game in Tampa Bay? | Column
    Mar. 4• Opinion
    Irma Mesa, 74, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Hospital in Miami in January.
  16. ‘Another success’ as Florida’s vaccine rollout ramps up | Editorial
    Mar. 4• Opinion
    Workers prepare a federally-run vaccination site Tuesday at the Tampa Greyhound Track in advance of its Wednesday opening.
  17. Gov. DeSantis should stop withholding critical COVID information | Letters
    Mar. 4• Letters to the Editor
    Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to a question at a press conference following his State of the State address during the joint session of the Florida Legislature at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday.
  18. Masks, cardboard fans, constant ennui: Things that were odd a year ago
    Mar. 4• Opinion
    A mask discarded on the sand at Clearwater Beach last month.
  19. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
    Mar. 3• Opinion
  20. America spends a lot of time trying to kill democracy | Column
    Mar. 3• Opinion
    Calvin Stalling of Atlanta wears a "Black Lives Matter" mask while he waits in a line to vote early at the State Farm Arena on Oct. 12, 2020, in Atlanta.
  21. Gov. DeSantis’ unconstitutional attack on social media | Column
    Mar. 3• Opinion
    Just as newspapers do, Facebook, Google and Twitter have the right to determine what kind of content they want on their platforms.
  22. Florida should favor a carbon tax to address climate change | Letters
    Mar. 3• Letters to the Editor
    Tampa Electric's Big Bend power station in Apollo Beach.
  23. Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
    Mar. 2• Opinion
  24. Gov. DeSantis takes a victory lap while the state still battles the coronavirus | Editorial
    Mar. 2• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis is applauded in the chamber of the Florida House of Representatives as he walks to the podium to address the joint session of the Florida Legislature at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday.
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