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Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
Florida should reverse course and continue to monitor student behavioral health | Column
The youth risk survey was developed in 1990 to assess the health behaviors of adolescent youth in public high schools across the country through a confidential survey. But Florida has announced that it is dropping out. Why?
Withdrawing from the CDC teen health survey makes no sense and is highly suspicious.
Why the world won’t find Vladimir Putin’s fortune | Column
Russian President Vladimir Putin
My time undercover with drug cartels taught me how the lure of laundered, illegal riches can keep many secrets.
Florida can’t get past ‘duh’ on this simple property insurance reform | Editorial
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach in 2018, the last year a named hurricane came ashore in Florida.
The governor has called a special session on property insurance.

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  1. Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  2. Florida should reverse course and continue to monitor student behavioral health | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The youth risk survey was developed in 1990 to assess the health behaviors of adolescent youth in public high schools across the country through a confidential survey. But Florida has announced that it is dropping out. Why?
  3. Why the world won’t find Vladimir Putin’s fortune | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Russian President Vladimir Putin
  5. Florida can’t get past ‘duh’ on this simple property insurance reform | Editorial
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach in 2018, the last year a named hurricane came ashore in Florida.
  6. Here’s my suggestion on one way to fight racism | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    President Joe Biden stands back as First Lady Dr. Jill Biden places flowers at a memorial just across the street of the Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 in Buffalo, N.Y. The Supermarket was the site of a fatal shooting of 10 people at a grocery store in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo by a young white gunman is being investigated as a hate crime and an act of "racially motivated violent extremism"; according to federal officials.
  7. Why did Florida pull out of important survey of teenagers? | Editorial
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Students walk between classes at Alonso High School in Tampa last year.
  8. It’s the woman’s choice, how about that for a ‘compromise’? | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Chandler Jones, right, 26, who will graduate this spring from the University of Baltimore School of Law, participates in a pro-choice rally in Baltimore, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Jones consulted the internet on her cellphone for information and advice before having an abortion during her junior year in college. In a post-Roe world, if the Supreme Court soon reverses the 1973 decision that legalized abortion, as a draft opinion suggests it may, pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
  9. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  10. Nine reasons for Tampa Bay residents to feel good | Editorial
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Clockwise from left: The black hole; Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy; a "help Wanted" sign; one of the bystanders who found a wallet on a Pinellas County bus.
  11. In wake of the Buffalo mass shooting, let’s pity the poor white people ... again | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Aaron Jordan, of Buffalo, adds to a sidewalk chalk mural depicting the names of the people killed in a mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market, Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.
  12. EPA must do its job to protect manatees from deadly pollution | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    State and federal biologists mounted an experimental effort to feed manatees in the northern Indian River Lagoon to stave off a mass starvation crisis on Florida's East Coast. This photo was taken during the Jan. 4 feeding.
  13. Trump’s goal is to solidify control over the GOP, not help it win elections | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance, left, greets former President Donald Trump at a rally in Delaware, Ohio, on April 23. Trump endorsed Vance, who went on to win the Republican primary on May 3. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/TNS)
  14. A better way to hold Bayshore driver responsible for crash that killed mom and toddler | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Cameron Herrin reacts the moment he hears his sentence — 24 years in prison — at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing on April 8, 2021. Herrin was the driver of a Ford Mustang that ran over a mother and daughter on Bayshore Boulevard in 2018, as Herrin, who was then 18, was racing another driver, John Barrineau. The Mustang hit Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt, who was pushing her 21-month-old daughter, Lillia, in a stroller across the road.
  15. It’s public pool season, Tampa Bay. Is that a Band-Aid?
    Yesterday• Opinion
    In praise of chaotic, happy community pool scenes, like this one at Northwest Pool in St. Petersburg.
  16. Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
    May 17• Opinion
  17. Who will actually do something about unending gun violence? | Letters
    May 17• Opinion
    Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  18. Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    May 16• Opinion
  19. The challenges facing the next Pinellas schools superintendent | Editorial
    May 16• Opinion
    From left are Marion County area superintendent Ann Hembrook, Pinellas County associate superintendent Kevin Hendrick and Denver Public Schools deputy superintendent Michael Ramirez. They are the three finalists vying to replace outgoing superintendent Mike Grego.
  20. Time for Florida Democrats to ‘grow a spine’ | Letters
    May 16• Opinion
    “I Voted” stickers
  21. It’s different when it’s your home | Column
    May 15• Opinion
    Abortion-rights advocates march in the street to stage a protest outside the house of Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito in the Fort Hunt neighborhood on Monday, May 9, 2022 in Alexandria, VA.
  22. Here is a fair compromise on abortion | Letters
    May 15• Opinion
    Abortion rights activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
  23. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    May 14• Opinion
    Stephen Parlato, of Boulder, Colo., holds a sign saying "hands off Roe," as a Capitol Police Officer walks past barricades outside of the Supreme Court, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Washington. "I'm trying to stop the Republicans' war on women," says Parlato, who flew in from Colorado to protest for abortion rights. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
  24. The week’s highs and lows | Editorial
    May 14• Opinion
    The two remaining houses from the Scrub, downtown Tampa’s pioneering Black neighborhood, purchased by the Tampa Housing Authority for restoration with the goal of creating affordable housing that is modern but pays tribute to the history of the area.
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