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Cameras may soon catch Floridians who excessively speed through school zones.
It’s great news that speed cameras are now legal in Florida school zones | Editorial
It will soon be safer for students to walk to school, thanks to Gov. DeSantis and the Legislature.
Here’s why Florida Republicans are starting to embrace clean energy | Column
A worker installs a solar panel at Duke Energy Florida's 3.8 megawatt solar array in Osceola County.
Nearly half of conservative Floridians believe in human-caused climate change and even more recognize it as a serious threat.
Let’s keep church and state separate in Florida | Letters
Principal Brendan Butcher and pastor Robert Gibbons posted a 21-minute video on YouTube explaining to families that St. Paul Catholic School in St. Petersburg would be increasing its 2023-24 tuition by thousands of dollars more than initially announced, in order to take advantage of state-funded vouchers.
Here’s what readers are saying in Friday’s letters to the editor.
Editorial cartoons for Friday from Times wire services
Editorial cartoon
Here’s a selection of editorial cartoons.

Latest

  1. It’s great news that speed cameras are now legal in Florida school zones | Editorial
    1 hour ago• Opinion
    Cameras may soon catch Floridians who excessively speed through school zones.
  2. Here’s why Florida Republicans are starting to embrace clean energy | Column
    2 hours ago• Opinion
    A worker installs a solar panel at Duke Energy Florida's 3.8 megawatt solar array in Osceola County.
  3. Let’s keep church and state separate in Florida | Letters
    2 hours ago• Opinion
    Principal Brendan Butcher and pastor Robert Gibbons posted a 21-minute video on YouTube explaining to families that St. Paul Catholic School in St. Petersburg would be increasing its 2023-24 tuition by thousands of dollars more than initially announced, in order to take advantage of state-funded vouchers.
  5. Editorial cartoons for Friday from Times wire services
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Editorial cartoon
  6. On President Biden and others, enough with the age obsession | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden step off Air Force One on May 30 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.
  7. What we lose in Florida by not teaching slavery’s history honestly | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Students may learn the story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery to lead the Underground Railroad. But there are so many others that need to be taught to understand, as the author says, "how slavery, as it worked itself out every day on the ground, could be almost infinitely complex. Never justifiable, under any circumstances, but complicated."
  8. Could Disney leave Florida because of DeSantis? | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Disney World was in central Florida long before Gov. Ron DeSantis became a political power and will be here long after he is gone.
  9. Why ‘Bud Lighting’ isn’t stopping any time soon | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    A shopper grabs a three-pack of Bud Light in Los Angeles.
  10. An Apple Watch saved my friend’s life after a fall | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Apple Watches can detect falls and call for help.
  11. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times wire services
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Editorial cartoon
  12. Zephyrhills’ growth is the Florida story | Editorial
    May 31• Opinion
    Traffic streams into the Fifth Avenue business district on Oct. 21, 2021, in historic downtown Zephyrhills, which recently became Pasco County’s largest city. Last week, the Zephyrhills City Council tentatively agreed to a moratorium that could stop new development and annexation applications by late June.
  13. Passive-aggressive alerts from my Apple Watch in times of stress
    May 31• Opinion
    Check your fitness rings! It looks like you’ve been frozen in a state of overwhelm for the past 16 hours and are spiraling into an emotional pit of despair from which you will not emerge unless you make at least one meager attempt to move your body!
  14. In Ozarks, little sign of Trump flags and MAGA hats | Letters
    May 31• Opinion
    In September 2020, supporters of then-President Donald Trump decorated their boats with flags during a Labor Day boat parade at the Coralville Reservoir in Johnson County, Iowa. A letter writer saw little of this sort of thing during a Memorial Day weekend in the Ozarks in Missouri.
  15. In Florida, seawalls are not the answer. Here’s why. | Column
    May 30• Opinion
    Beachgoers maneuver around erosion at Haulover Beach Park in Miami. Storms, tides and rising sea levels are swallowing up chunks of beach along Florida's coastline, and seawalls don't offer the protection that many people think and can cause unintended problems.
  16. Book banning isn’t a ‘culture war’ | Column
    May 30• Opinion
    Books are displayed at the Banned Book Library at American Stage in St. Petersburg in February.
  17. Don’t worry so much about artificial intelligence. It needs us | Letters
    May 30• Opinion
    A screen displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by OpenAI.
  18. Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    May 30• Opinion
    Cartoon
  19. Where in the world is Gov. DeSantis? A flight tracker tails his plane | Letters
    May 29• Opinion
    A new Twitter account, @DeSantisJet, aims to track Gov. Ron DeSantis' travel on a state-owned plane. The account was created by the same Florida college student who stirred controversy by building an account tracking the private jet of Tesla and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
  20. A quiz for Memorial Day: Presidents’ fallen family
    May 28• Opinion
    Flags and tributes mark the Memorial Day holiday at Fort Logan National Cemetery in southeast Denver in 2021.
  21. Are Florida leaders ready for 5 million more residents? | Letters
    May 28• Opinion
    A photograph taken from the International Space Station shows Florida and the gulf coast. Five million more residents are expected in the state by 2030.
  22. Stories of hope, resolve and remembrance mark the week | Editorial
    May 27• Opinion
    Jasmin Cervantes-García, a Wimauma teen, is recovering after she survived an accident in Mexico that killed her parents.
  23. Poet Amanda Gorman’s ‘The hill we climb’ and Rudyard Kipling | Letters
    May 27• Opinion
    Amanda Gorman recites her poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021.
  24. Gov. DeSantis is wrong on the cause of the Civil War | Column
    May 27• Opinion
    Civil War-era cannons are fired at the end of the Confederate Memorial Day celebration in Stone Mountain Park on April 29, 2023. The author argues that Americans deserve a president who understands the true causes of the war.
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