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Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
Here’s what to think about in redeveloping the Trop site | Column
Peter Kageyama writes that "when we love something, we are protective of it and we expect only the best for it. That is the ultimate challenge for the Trop site — to do something beyond technical excellence, beyond aesthetic beauty, beyond greatness, to do something worthy of that which we love."
The 87-acre site is a “generational project” that will set the tone and timbre of all development for a generation.
What to make of the appeals court ruling in the Trump top-secret documents case | Column
This federal appeals court ruling has halted an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
The principle that everyone, including a former president, answers to the same laws — that we are all common men and women — appears vindicated for now.
Don’t overemphasize affordable housing to the detriment of Trop redevelopment | Letters
St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch gives a speech during Enchant Christmas at Tropicana Field on Nov. 25 in St. Petersburg.
Here’s what readers are saying in Tuesday’s letters to the editor.

Latest

  1. Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  2. Here’s what to think about in redeveloping the Trop site | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Peter Kageyama writes that "when we love something, we are protective of it and we expect only the best for it. That is the ultimate challenge for the Trop site — to do something beyond technical excellence, beyond aesthetic beauty, beyond greatness, to do something worthy of that which we love."
  3. What to make of the appeals court ruling in the Trump top-secret documents case | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    This federal appeals court ruling has halted an independent review of documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
  5. Don’t overemphasize affordable housing to the detriment of Trop redevelopment | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch gives a speech during Enchant Christmas at Tropicana Field on Nov. 25 in St. Petersburg.
  6. Tampa police chief’s golf cart saga is a lesson in weak apologies
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Former police Chief Mary O'Connor did not alert Tampa Mayor Jane Castor of the golf cart incident for 18 days, after Creative Loafing had requested the footage.
  7. Editorial Cartoons for Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  8. Florida’s midterms may be over, but the judicial revolution continues | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The Florida Supreme Court building.
  9. I see in myself and my daughter-in-law how color and privilege work in America | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    "Auburn, Colored China Rags," by Juana Valdés, hangs on the wall at Espacio 23 Cuban art show called "You Know Who You Are" last month in Miami. The rags are made from bone china porcelain, a material typically associated with the wealthy. However, this work hints on how people of all different skin tones and all types of individuals are involved with the material — whether they're eating from it or serving it, said one of the curators.
  10. Why is America like this? | Column
    Dec. 4• Opinion
    Flowers are placed by a tree outside a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart on Nov. 23, 2022, where a mass shooting took place the night before.
  11. My friend could take The Villages for just one year | Letters
    Dec. 4• Opinion
    A line of golf carts is parked next to the busy Sumter Landing Town Square in The Villages.
  12. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Neo-Nazis, alt-Right and white supremacists march the night before the "Unite the Right" rally, on Aug. 11, 2017, through the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
  13. China’s torment is a reminder of what we have | Column
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing on Nov. 27. In a society where everything is closely monitored and censored, the white paper is a silent protest against users not being allowed to speak.
  14. White privilege? It’s not the color of money. It’s the power of it | Letters
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    Money is power, and money is protection.
  15. It’s time to be proud of the U.S. men’s soccer team. | Editorial
    Dec. 3• Opinion
    U.S players celebrate after the World Cup group B soccer match between Iran and the United States at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday.
  16. Editorial Cartoons for Saturday and Sunday from Times Wire Services
    Dec. 3• Opinion
  17. Tampa police chief Mary O’Connor must go | Editorial
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    A screenshot from video recorded by a Pinellas deputy's body camera on Nov. 12 shows Tampa police Chief Mary O'Connor and her husband, Keith, during a traffic stop. O'Connor identified herself as chief, pulled out her badge and asked the deputy to "just let us go" when told they'd been pulled over for not having a tag on the golf cart while he was driving on a public road.
  18. Could a headstand lead team USA to a World Cup victory? We tried it out.
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    Tampa Bay Times reporter Lauren Peace tests out a theory that a two-minute headstand could lead team USA to a World Cup victory at Puryear Park on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in St. Petersburg.
  19. Let the Florida governor run for president | Editorial
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on Nov. 19 in Las Vegas.
  20. I’m the same age as President Biden as of today | Column
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    President Joe Biden, who turned 80 last month, meets with French President Emmanuel Macron, who will turn 45 this month, in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday during a state visit.
  21. After 77 years, I’m still in search of this ‘white privilege’ | Letters
    Dec. 2• Opinion
    The statues of the Vietnam war memorial at Orlando Veterans' Memorial Park are silhouetted with the American flag on the eve of Veterans Day.
  22. Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
    Dec. 1• Opinion
  23. What to do now that seniors account for 9 in 10 Florida COVID deaths | Editorial
    Dec. 1• Opinion
    A nurse checks on IV pumps while treating a COVID-19 patient this week.
  24. The political charade behind the removal of Hillsborough’s progressive state attorney | Editorial
    Dec. 1• Opinion
    Suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren speaks to reporters before a federal court hearing on Tuesday in Tallahassee.
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