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Renaud Brossard, Quebec director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, talks with reporters as he unveiled a billboard right next to the Tropicana Field telling the Tampa Bay Rays that taxpayers wouldn’t pay for their new stadium in Montréal, in the parking lot at Tropicana Field on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021 in St. Petersburg. The electronic billboard says “Dear Rays, Montréal won’t pay for your new stadium. Sincerely, Taxpayers.”
Dear Rays, Montreal won’t pay for your new stadium | Column
The economic case simply isn’t there, and there are other priorities.
St. Pete voters should support eliminating equity gaps | Column
Voters head to the polls as the doors open for the St. Petersburg Primary Election at Lake Vista Recreation Center on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 in St. Petersburg. The city's general election is Tuesday, Nov. 2.
Here is why we believe voters should approve Amendments 3 and 4.
What’s Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s problem? | Editorial
Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Joseph Ladapo as the state surgeon general on Sept. 21.
The recently appointed state surgeon general needs to clean up his (already tired) act.
50/50 raffles are the best part of Tampa Bay sports season
A Stanley Cup is nice, but have you tried winning the 50/50 raffle?
Are you going to win? No! Is it fun to play? Maybe!

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  1. Dear Rays, Montreal won’t pay for your new stadium | Column
    2 hours ago• Opinion
    Renaud Brossard, Quebec director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, talks with reporters as he unveiled a billboard right next to the Tropicana Field telling the Tampa Bay Rays that taxpayers wouldn’t pay for their new stadium in Montréal, in the parking lot at Tropicana Field on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021 in St. Petersburg. The electronic billboard says “Dear Rays, Montréal won’t pay for your new stadium. Sincerely, Taxpayers.”
  2. St. Pete voters should support eliminating equity gaps | Column
    2 hours ago• Opinion
    Voters head to the polls as the doors open for the St. Petersburg Primary Election at Lake Vista Recreation Center on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 in St. Petersburg. The city's general election is Tuesday, Nov. 2.
  3. What’s Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s problem? | Editorial
    3 hours ago• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Joseph Ladapo as the state surgeon general on Sept. 21.
  5. 50/50 raffles are the best part of Tampa Bay sports season
    4 hours ago• Opinion
    A Stanley Cup is nice, but have you tried winning the 50/50 raffle?
  6. Why so much ongoing government secrecy surrounding the Kennedy assassination? | Editorial
    Earlier today• Opinion
    President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Riding with Kennedy are First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left. [Jim Altgens | Associated Press (1963)]
  7. A reasonable green ‘go/no go’ pass works great for curbing COVID | Letters
    Earlier today• Letters to the Editor
    After showing proof of a negative COVID test or vaccination, people received a wrist band in order to enter a theater in Fort Lauderdale. Slow Burn Theatre staged "Songs for a New World," the first theater production since March 2020 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts at the The Amaturo Theater in Fort Lauderdale on Oct. 12, 2021.
  8. Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  9. In Tampa, second-chance employment will create a better community for everybody | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Florida Rights Restoration Coalition leaders, Desmond Meade (left) and Neil Volz, arrive at the Hillsborough County Courthouse for a press conference to discuss how the Fines and Fees program will help returning citizens and the surrounding community, on, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020 in Tampa.
  10. Tampa International passengers, please don’t put steamer trunks in the overhead bins | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    This rendering shows the interior of Tampa International Airport's Blue Express Curbside check-in area, which will be open to travelers without checked bags on Nov. 16.
  11. How Florida’s newspapers grew, prospered and struggled | Column
    Oct. 24• Opinion
    This 1920s photograph features a newspaper reader walking through St. Petersburg, Florida’s downtown open air post office. The newspaper reader in the photo is probably reading the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) or the Evening Independent. This photograph comes from the Earl R. Jacobs III collection of Francis G. Wagner Photographs at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus library. The post office was, and still is, just a couple of blocks from the Times.
  12. A Florida school punishes students for getting a COVID vaccination | Editorial
    Oct. 24• Opinion
    Centner Academy’s three-story preschool is located in the Design District, Miami’s upscale luxury shopping mecca.
  13. Condoleezza Rice wants to move on from the Jan. 6 insurrection | Column
    Oct. 24• Opinion
    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
  14. Wake up to save our republic | Letters
    Oct. 24• Letters to the Editor
    President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Sept. 25, 2021, in Perry, Georgia.
  15. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    Oct. 23• Opinion
    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer jokes about arriving on time with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during a news conference on families helped by the Child Tax Credit at the U.S. Capitol this summer.
  16. So here is the existential crisis that no one is talking about | Column
    Oct. 23• Opinion
    Fish swim in a reef at Pearl and Hermes Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. A decade-long effort by the world to save the world’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly failed so far, with fragile ecosystems like coral reefs and tropical forests in even more trouble than ever, according to a United Nations biodiversity report released in 2020. (Jacob Asher/NOAA via AP)
  17. California’s oil spill reminds us of the dangers facing Florida’s beaches | Column
    Oct. 23• Opinion
  18. Florida’s lawmakers must not forget Florida’s abysmal COVID track record | Editorial
    Oct. 23• Opinion
    A COVID-19 vaccine
  19. Here’s a better way for Florida to become energy efficient | Column
    Oct. 23• Opinion
    Let’s get the rules right in the rule-making proceeding at the PSC. Utility companies should expand energy efficiency to help people reduce power bills and protect their health. Add to that, solar, wind, and the electrification of transportation and we will have a fighting chance to stay healthy in the face of a warming climate.
  20. Port Tampa Bay offers supply chain alternative amid the supply chain congestion | Column
    Oct. 23• Opinion
    A tanker ship travels east under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge en route to the Port Tampa Bay this summer.
  21. Like Colin Powell said, nothing in life is 100% | Letters
    Oct. 23• Letters to the Editor
    Colin Powell
  22. Editorial Cartoons for Saturday & Sunday from Times Wire Services
    Oct. 22• Opinion
  23. On masks, vaccinations and other COVID concerns, whose rights are these, really? | Letters
    Oct. 22• Letters to the Editor
    Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared war on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination.
  24. What’s Ashley Moody’s problem with finding the truth? | Editorial
    Oct. 22• Opinion
    Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. [times | (2019)]
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