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Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
Letter writers explain how white privilege works | Letters
U.S. deputy marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960. The first-grader was the only Black child enrolled in the school, where parents of white students boycotted the court-ordered integration law and took their children out of school.
Here’s what readers are saying in Thursday’s letters to the editor.
Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
On Donald Trump, have we finally learned our lesson? | Column
U.S. Constitution with stars on blue field background.
Do we finally grasp that in the face of a clear and present danger, one must report it with the gravity it demands? We can only hope.

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  1. Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
    3 hours ago• Opinion
  2. Letter writers explain how white privilege works | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    U.S. deputy marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960. The first-grader was the only Black child enrolled in the school, where parents of white students boycotted the court-ordered integration law and took their children out of school.
  3. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  5. On Donald Trump, have we finally learned our lesson? | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    U.S. Constitution with stars on blue field background.
  6. We can help fix the shortage of qualified workers in Tampa Bay | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The St. Petersburg College downtown campus. The college is in a partnership to expand its staff to create a “concierge” service for employers, working with local business partners, including BayCare and Lockheed Martin, to determine what jobs the businesses need to fill, preparing students for those jobs and then guiding students and alumni through the process of landing jobs or getting promotions.
  7. C-suite psychos? Try aiming even higher | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    A letter writer notes that the White House is a C-suite of its own.
  8. As elections near, a restive Tampa City Council flexes its muscles | Editorial
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Tampa CIty Council member Orlando Gudes rises during an angry exchange with council chairperson Joseph Citro last month.
  9. Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
    Dec. 6• Opinion
  10. Here’s what to think about in redeveloping the Trop site | Column
    Dec. 6• Opinion
    Peter Kageyama writes that "when we love something, we are protective of it and we expect only the best for it. That is the ultimate challenge for the Trop site — to do something beyond technical excellence, beyond aesthetic beauty, beyond greatness, to do something worthy of that which we love."
  11. What to make of the appeals court ruling in the Trump top-secret documents case | Column
    Dec. 6• Opinion
    This federal appeals court ruling has halted an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
  12. Tampa police chief’s golf cart saga is a lesson in weak apologies
    Dec. 6• Opinion
    Former police Chief Mary O'Connor did not alert Tampa Mayor Jane Castor of the golf cart incident for 18 days, after Creative Loafing had requested the footage.
  13. Don’t overemphasize affordable housing to the detriment of Trop redevelopment | Letters
    Dec. 6• Opinion
    St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch gives a speech during Enchant Christmas at Tropicana Field on Nov. 25 in St. Petersburg.
  14. Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    Dec. 5• Opinion
  15. Florida’s midterms may be over, but the judicial revolution continues | Column
    Dec. 5• Opinion
    The Florida Supreme Court building.
  16. I see in myself and my daughter-in-law how color and privilege work in America | Letters
    Dec. 5• Opinion
    "Auburn, Colored China Rags," by Juana Valdés, hangs on the wall at Espacio 23 Cuban art show called "You Know Who You Are" last month in Miami. The rags are made from bone china porcelain, a material typically associated with the wealthy. However, this work hints on how people of all different skin tones and all types of individuals are involved with the material — whether they're eating from it or serving it, said one of the curators.
  17. Why is America like this? | Column
    Dec. 4• Opinion
    Flowers are placed by a tree outside a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart on Nov. 23, 2022, where a mass shooting took place the night before.
  18. My friend could take The Villages for just one year | Letters
    Dec. 4• Opinion
    A line of golf carts is parked next to the busy Sumter Landing Town Square in The Villages.
  19. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Neo-Nazis, alt-Right and white supremacists march the night before the "Unite the Right" rally, on Aug. 11, 2017, through the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
  20. China’s torment is a reminder of what we have | Column
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing on Nov. 27. In a society where everything is closely monitored and censored, the white paper is a silent protest against users not being allowed to speak.
  21. White privilege? It’s not the color of money. It’s the power of it | Letters
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Money is power, and money is protection.
  22. It’s time to be proud of the U.S. men’s soccer team. | Editorial
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    U.S players celebrate after the World Cup group B soccer match between Iran and the United States at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday.
  23. Editorial Cartoons for Saturday and Sunday from Times Wire Services
    Dec. 3• Opinion
  24. Tampa police chief Mary O’Connor must go | Editorial
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    A screenshot from video recorded by a Pinellas deputy's body camera on Nov. 12 shows Tampa police Chief Mary O'Connor and her husband, Keith, during a traffic stop. O'Connor identified herself as chief, pulled out her badge and asked the deputy to "just let us go" when told they'd been pulled over for not having a tag on the golf cart while he was driving on a public road.
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