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  1. Focus on critical thinking rather rather than be obsessed with critical race theory | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    The Florida State Board of Education discusses barring "critical race theory" from K-12 classrooms during a meeting June 10, 2021, in Jacksonville.
  2. The center of the bald eagle, not its wings, is America | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    A bald eagle grabs a fish from the Susquehanna River in Maryland. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  3. We simply cannot bear to look | Letters
    Jun. 10• Letters to the Editor
    Liberated prisoners walk out of Buchenwald concentration camp after being freed by U.S. Army troops in April 1945. A New York Times dispatch from April 18, 1945, said: "German civilians, 1,200 of them, were brought from the neighboring city of Weimar today to see for themselves the horror, brutality and human indecency perpetrated against the ‘neighbors’ at the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp." From Times files.
  5. An assault rifle is like a Swiss Army knife and other leaps of illogic | Letters
    Jun. 9• Letters to the Editor
    An AR-15 is like a pocket knife?
  6. Florida moderates, vote in the primary to squeeze out extremists | Letters
    Jun. 8• Letters to the Editor
    A St. Petersburg voter enters the Lake Vista Recreation Center on the day of the Florida presidential primary, March 17, 2020.
  7. Isn’t being ‘woke’ a good thing? | Letters
    Jun. 7• Letters to the Editor
    Shouldn't we be learning about our history good and bad? Isn't that a form of learning from our mistakes, of being "woke"?
  8. Telehealth can help police handle mental health calls | Letters
    Jun. 6• Letters to the Editor
    Deputy Cheryl Gimenez, left, and crisis response specialist Brittany DeFiore, with the expanded Mental Health Unit at the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, walk to the home of an 11-year-old girl who reported she was feeling suicidal over bullying she is receiving at school on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Clearwater. The unit, which pairs mental/behavioral health professionals with deputies to respond to certain calls. eventually took the girl to an area hospital on an involuntary Baker Act.
  9. Letter of the month and Florida as an ‘apocalyptic hellscape’ | Letters
    Jun. 5• Letters to the Editor
    Florida as seen from space.
  10. Tampa doesn’t have time to waste on climate change | Letters
    Jun. 4• Letters to the Editor
    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor speaks at the Resilient Tampa press event on May 27 at the Sulphur Springs Pool Complex in Tampa.
  11. Florida needs more philosophy majors. Here’s proof | Letters
    Jun. 3• Letters to the Editor
    A marble statues of ancient Greek philosopher Plato is seen on a plinth in front of the Athens Academy, as the Greek flag flies. Greece's illustrious ancient thinkers built the foundations of Western scholarship. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
  12. How to teach history as a patriotic American | Letters
    Jun. 2• Letters to the Editor
    The Declaration of Independence, painted in 1819 by John Trumbull.
  13. It’s sunny side up for Tampa’s solar panels | Letters
    Jun. 1• Letters to the Editor
    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor speaks at the Resilient Tampa press event on May 27 at the Sulphur Springs Pool Complex in Tampa where Castor and the city’s sustainability and resilience officer unveiled a “road map” to the city's future. The 58-point plan seeks to address climate change, poverty, racism, affordable housing, transportation and employment opportunities for residents.
  14. Florida is cheap on unemployment benefits and proud of it | Letters
    May 31• Letters to the Editor
    Protestors wave signs at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2020 in Orlando. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
  15. $1,000 buys a teacher a one-way ticket out of Florida | Letters
    May 29• Letters to the Editor
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces his proposal to give $1000 bonuses to school principals and teachers in Florida during a press conference on March 31, 2021, at Palm Harbor University High School.
  16. John Marshall isn’t the best example of jurisprudence | Letters
    May 28• Letters to the Editor
    The University of Illinois at Chicago's John Marshall Law School before the decision to rename it and remove his name.
  17. In Israel, U.S. foots a bill on both sides | Letters
    May 27• Letters to the Editor
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on May 25, 2021, days after an Egypt-brokered truce halted fighting between the Jewish state and the Gaza Strip's rulers Hamas. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)
  18. Why Floridians will keep driving rather than taking a bus or train | Letters
    May 26• Letters to the Editor
    A Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority public transit bus.
  19. Is this the right way to get to $15 an hour? | Letters
    May 25• Letters to the Editor
    Demonstrators rally at the Capitol in support of McDonald's workers on strike to be paid $15 per hour in 15 cities on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
  20. St. Pete isn’t obligated to give restaurants free outdoor space | Letters
    May 24• Letters to the Editor
    What will be the appropriate level of sidewalk seating in post-pandemic St. Petersburg?
  21. Wear your vaccine card proudly around your neck | Letters
    May 24• Letters to the Editor
    Receptionist Maribel Hidalgo displays her vaccination card after receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Oregon earlier this year.
  22. Florida students should learn critical thinking | Letters
    May 22• Letters to the Editor
    The Declaration of Independence (Painted 1819, John Trumbull).
  23. Florida schools should teach history, not glossy fiction | Letters
    May 21• Letters to the Editor
    Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people, are seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  24. I doubt my Florida car insurance will get cheaper | Letters
    May 20• Letters to the Editor
    This 2016 photo was taken after three teens stole a Toyota Camry from a driver who was grabbing coffee at 7 a.m. and crashed it into a parked car about a block away.
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