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Editorial Cartoons for Saturday & Sunday from Times Wire Services
DeSantis’ rejection of AP African American studies course is a rejection of school choice | Column
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks after being sworn in to begin his second term during an inauguration ceremony outside the Old Capitol on Jan. 3, 2023. DeSantis' administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African-American studies from being taught in high schools, saying the class violates state law and that it is historically inaccurate.
Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis acting just like his opposition by attempting to dictate what students are permitted to learn?
Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, don’t just remember, stand up | Column
Above the gate at Auschwitz is the sign Arbeit macht frei ("work sets you free"), a bitter irony to those who suffered and died at the Nazi concentration camp.
The Holocaust showed us the difference between those who stand on the sidelines and those who stand up, and we need more of the latter.
‘The Bluest Eye’ is the latest victim of Florida’s thought police
A copy of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" inside a book box in Dunedin on Jan. 26, 2023. Pinellas County school officials have removed the book from all high schools.
Toni Morrison’s book is a masterpiece. But literary merit no longer outweighs empty soundbites.

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  1. Editorial Cartoons for Saturday & Sunday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  2. DeSantis’ rejection of AP African American studies course is a rejection of school choice | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks after being sworn in to begin his second term during an inauguration ceremony outside the Old Capitol on Jan. 3, 2023. DeSantis' administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African-American studies from being taught in high schools, saying the class violates state law and that it is historically inaccurate.
  3. Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, don’t just remember, stand up | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Above the gate at Auschwitz is the sign Arbeit macht frei ("work sets you free"), a bitter irony to those who suffered and died at the Nazi concentration camp.
  5. ‘The Bluest Eye’ is the latest victim of Florida’s thought police
    Yesterday• Opinion
    A copy of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" inside a book box in Dunedin on Jan. 26, 2023. Pinellas County school officials have removed the book from all high schools.
  6. Here’s what Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ meant to me at 18 | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work that included the novel "The Bluest Eye," which has now been pulled from Pinellas public school classrooms and libraries.
  7. Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  8. Why Johnny might finally learn to read | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Migna Pacheco reads a book to her 6-month-old son Pablo Zapata inside their residence at the Cora building on Dec. 13, 2022, in Tampa.
  9. Go after employees, not just banks, who laundered al-Qaida and the Taliban’s dirty money | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Ryan Timoney and his then-fiancee Kelby Sims (now his wife) at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., after his cranioplasty in 2012. He was severely injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan and is part of a civil suit seeing damages from banks the plaintiffs allege laundered terrorists' money.
  10. I was Florida’s professor of the year, but my classes would now be illegal | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB 7, the "Individual Freedom Act," also dubbed the "Stop WOKE" bill during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens in April 2022.
  11. Here’s what it was like to be a gay student in a Florida high school in the ‘70s | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Paradegoers carry a huge rainbow flag past city hall on Lakeside Avenue during a Cleveland Pride Parade.
  12. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
    Jan. 25• Opinion
  13. I teach in Florida schools and in this gray world, I better be ‘woke.’ You can look it up. | Column
    Jan. 25• Opinion
    The author writes: "Somehow woke has been pejoratively appropriated — some might say hijacked — for nefarious purposes. Messy politics notwithstanding, as an English teacher I’m going to stick with the dictionary definition and state, with pride, that I consider myself to be 100%, unequivocally woke. Controversial issues make for natural classroom discussion topics and I often wind up playing devil’s advocate while walking a tenuous tightrope in a stiff crosswind."
  14. It saved Chesapeake Bay, and Floridians could use it to save our waters, too | Column
    Jan. 25• Opinion
    A manatee floats in a canal at Port Everglades on Jan. 18, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Manatees gather in the winter months in canal waters warmed by a nearby Florida Power & Light power plant, where Port Everglades provides a protection zone for the manatees.
  15. Guess which governor could benefit from this AP course on African American studies? | Letters
    Jan. 25• Opinion
    The new Advanced Placement African American studies course, whose curricula is not yet public, is now being run as a pilot in 60 high schools nationwide. But Florida is banning the course.
  16. Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
    Jan. 24• Opinion
  17. In Gov. DeSantis vs. Warren, who really neglected their duty? | Column
    Jan. 24• Opinion
    Former State Attorney Andrew Warren speaks during a news conference on Jan. 20, 2023 in Tampa. A federal judge ruled Friday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the First Amendment and the Florida Constitution by removing Warren, an elected state prosecutor, but that the federal courts lack the power to reinstate him.
  18. A development to bring affordable housing to west St. Pete | Column
    Jan. 24• Opinion
    A rendering of the apartment complex proposed for the former Raytheon site in St. Petersburg.
  19. My wife never got COVID until she quit wearing a mask | Letters
    Jan. 24• Opinion
    Some travelers wore face masks and some didn't at Tampa International Airport after Tampa Bay airports lifted mask requirements for travelers in April 2022.
  20. I’m Jeb Bush, and I support Florida’s new voucher plan | Column
    Jan. 23• Opinion
    Florida House Speaker Paul Renner announced last week that one of his priorities during the legislative session that begins in March will be to expand school vouchers.
  21. Will Floridians’ ‘freedom’ from masks and vaccines put others at risk? | Letters
    Jan. 23• Opinion
    Travelers with and without face coverings are pictured at Tampa International Airport last spring.
  22. One way to pay just value for those displaced from the Historic Gas Plant site | Letters
    Jan. 22• Opinion
    An aerial drone view of Tropicana Field and surrounding area.
  23. My father helped found New College, and I fear what’s going on | Letters
    Jan. 22• Opinion
    New College of Florida is slated to get an academic overhaul under new trustees appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  24. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    Jan. 21• Opinion
    Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on stage during the second debate between the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees on Oct. 9, 2016, at Washington University in St. Louis.
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