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The SpaceX Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of the rocket, sits on Launch Pad 39-A Monday, May 25, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Two astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for launch on May 27. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) [DAVID J. PHILLIP | AP]
Look! Up in the sky! America is launching astronauts from Florida again. | Editorial
Wednesday’s scheduled launch will test whether private companies can send people into space safely and economically.
Yesterday• Opinion
Florida should follow judge’s ruling on felon voting rights, not fight it | Editorial
Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts Pat Frank speaks during a news conference to announce the elimination of remaining court fines and fees for 31 former felons seeking to register to vote on Dec. 20, 2019, in Tampa. [MARTHA ASENCIO RHINE | Times]
The federal judge’s ruling that felons cannot be banned from voting if they cannot afford to pay fines and fees is the right decision.
Yesterday• Opinion
What will be the new normal for Florida’s universities? | Editorial
University of South Florida students are seen walking around campus at the University of South Florida in Tampa in 2018. [Times (2018)]
The state should issue general public health guidelines, and each campus should add specifics.
May 22• Opinion
A nation home and preoccupied should remember Memorial Day | Editorial
Veteran Michael Halper pays his respects to a friend killed in Vietnam ahead of a Veterans Day ceremony at the Vietnam War Memorial, in Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) [MATT ROURKE | AP]
A moment to honor Americans who died while serving in the U.S. military.
Yesterday• Opinion

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