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The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Florida police officers and any other crime victims can't shield their identity behind Marsy's Law, the 2018 constitutional amendment meant to grant more rights to victims of crimes.
Secret police have no place in Florida | Column
Without officers’ names, the public also can’t identify patterns of misconduct or discover that problematic cops are moving from city to city.
A Gator fan says FSU got the shaft | Letters
Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles holds up the trophy after the Florida State Seminoles defeat the Louisville Cardinals, 16-6, in the ACC Championship at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Here’s what readers are saying in Tuesday’s letters to the editor.
Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
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If Moms for Liberty co-founder had sex with a woman, why is she targeting Florida’s gays? | Column
Republican Party of Florida chairman Christian Ziegler, left, greets former president Donald Trump at the Republican Party of Florida's Freedom Summit in Kissimmee last month.
The crusading ideologue — who demanded private Christian school-style mores in public schools, from grades K-12, when high-school students are either close to or already adults — is now facing the...

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  1. Secret police have no place in Florida | Column
    4 hours ago• Opinion
    The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Florida police officers and any other crime victims can't shield their identity behind Marsy's Law, the 2018 constitutional amendment meant to grant more rights to victims of crimes.
  2. A Gator fan says FSU got the shaft | Letters
    5 hours ago• Opinion
    Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles holds up the trophy after the Florida State Seminoles defeat the Louisville Cardinals, 16-6, in the ACC Championship at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  3. Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    5 hours ago• Opinion
    Cartoon
  5. If Moms for Liberty co-founder had sex with a woman, why is she targeting Florida’s gays? | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Republican Party of Florida chairman Christian Ziegler, left, greets former president Donald Trump at the Republican Party of Florida's Freedom Summit in Kissimmee last month.
  6. Living shorelines provide a natural defense against climate change for Florida’s coasts | Column
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Aerial drone photo of erosion and damage 48 hours after Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach in November 2022.
  7. My relatives didn’t fight for Tommy Tuberville’s idiocy | Letters
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
  8. It’s all Biden’s fault, a rerun of 2016 and how Gavin Newsom outsmarted DeSantis | Readings
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    Former President Donald Trump arrives at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Aug. 24 in Atlanta.
  9. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and DEI in Florida | Column
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was adapted to become a classic animated Christmas show in the 1960s.
  10. Florida, don’t loosen rules for gun waiting periods | Letters
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    An employee at K&W Gunworks in Delray Beach shows a customer one of the weapons she was picking up at the end of the three-day waiting period.
  11. Florida Supreme Court gets it right on Marsy’s Law | Editorial
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Florida police officers and any other crime victims can't shield their identity behind Marsy's Law, the 2018 constitutional amendment meant to grant more rights to victims of crimes.
  12. After DeSantis vs. Newsom, will debates get even more pointless?
    Dec. 1• Opinion
    Reporters watch from an off-site hotel as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom engage in a snippy slap fight on the Fox News cable channel Thursday night.
  13. Will Nikki Haley’s comet continue to streak across Iowa next month? | Column
    Dec. 1• Opinion
    Chris Christie, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis take their places at their respective lecterns before the Fox Business Republican Candidate Debate held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in September. (© Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire)
  14. The integrity of Florida’s educational system is at stake | Letters
    Dec. 1• Opinion
    School classroom with blackboard
  15. Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
    Dec. 1• Opinion
    Cartoon
  16. Here’s how to help more Florida college students to graduate | Editorial
    Nov. 30• Opinion
    Tansheka Riggens, a student at St. Petersburg College, meets in person for the first time with her completion coach, Matt Smith, on Nov. 20 in St. Petersburg.
  17. Maybe women were actually the hunters, not the gatherers | Columns
    Nov. 30• Opinion
    This is a figurative representation of an old Neanderthal woman in the Neandertal Museum in Erkrath, Germany. The authors write that our Neanderthal cousins, a group of humans who lived across Western and Central Eurasia approximately 250,000 to 40,000 years ago, formed small, highly nomadic bands. Fossil evidence shows females and males experienced the same bony traumas across their bodies — a signature of a hard life hunting deer, aurochs and woolly mammoths.
  18. Has the Democratic Party been led astray by progressive activists? | Column
    Nov. 30• Opinion
    President Joe Biden greets Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, front, as he arrives on Air Force One at Denver International Airport on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
  19. Floridians are ‘free’ to lose their homes | Letters
    Nov. 30• Opinion
    The partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside killed 98 people.
  20. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
    Nov. 30• Opinion
    Cartoon
  21. Florida vs. California: Which is better? My view as DeSantis and Newsom debate | Column
    Nov. 29• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom will debate Thursday on Fox.
  22. How about neither Disney nor DeSantis gets a ‘special district’? | Column
    Nov. 29• Opinion
    Scott Maxwell writes that "If lawmakers truly wanted to end Disney’s special privileges, they would do just that and have Orange County control the theme park’s governmental services — the same way the county does for every other business in its service area."
  23. Veterans Administration must come clean on conduct of Pinellas cemetery director | Editorial
    Nov. 29• Opinion
    Bay Pines National Cemetery in St. Petersburg is pictured on Memorial Day in 2016.
  24. There are problems beyond just the Mideast | Letters
    Nov. 29• Opinion
    Released Israeli hostage Sahar Kalderon is embraced by a relative upon her arrival at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv on Monday after being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (IDF via AP)
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