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  1. Imagine if the Tampa Bay Rays were the ‘I-4 Rays’ | Letters
    Earlier today• Opinion
    "Thank you, Rays fans" is written above the entrance as fans exit from the Gate 1 area at Tropicana Field on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in St. Petersburg.
  2. Why won’t Gov. DeSantis say if he has gotten a COVID booster? | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis
  3. You can get run over on Tampa Bay’s mean streets | Letters
    Jan. 20• Opinion
    Across the Tampa Bay region, the roads are a dangerous place for pedestrians and cyclists.
  5. Why are Biden’s poll numbers not even worse, given the job he’s done? | Letters
    Jan. 19• Opinion
    President Joe Biden
  6. Voting rights should respect the will of the people | Letters
    Jan. 18• Opinion
    A voter makes her way into a polling place at Sea Castle Elementary School in Miramar on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.
  7. Supreme Court’s bad decision on vaccine mandates is one more blow to health care workers | Letters
    Jan. 17• Opinion
    The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington.
  8. On abortion, how about this? I don’t want to be pregnant | Letters
    Jan. 16• Opinion
    Abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021.
  9. Guess what? Prepare, because things do affect you personally | Letters
    Jan. 15• Opinion
    This image provided by the Virginia department of Transportation shows a closed section of Interstate 95 near Fredericksburg, Va. Monday Jan. 3, 2022. Both northbound and southbound sections of the highway were closed due to snow and ice. (Virginia Department of Transportation via AP)
  10. An honor for Florida Wildlife Corridor proponent Carlton Ward Jr. | Letters
    Jan. 14• Opinion
    In this 2015 photo by Carlton Ward Jr. called Chassahowitzka Dawn, a breathtaking sunrise emerges beside Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, where the morning fog rises off of palm-studded Crawford Creek, which is protected by a combination of state, federal and private land. Photo courtesy Carlton Ward Jr.
  11. What do Rays season ticket holders think about split season? | Letters
    Jan. 13• Opinion
    DIRK SHADD | Times A fan clutches a sign with Montreal crossed out while sitting in left field as the Tampa Bay Rays take on the Baltimore Orioles during the sixth inning at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, on Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
  12. How I care for my unvaccinated patients | Letters
    Jan. 12• Letters to the Editor
    A nurse suits up with protective gear before entering a patient's room at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Jan. 3, 2022. The omicron variant has caused a surge of new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. and many hospitals are not only swamped with cases but severely shorthanded because of so many employees out with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
  13. Having a beer, taking a little break and the art of compromise | Letters
    Jan. 11• Letters to the Editor
    The U.S. Capitol, where compromise is in short supply.
  14. The decline of student behavior | Letters
    Jan. 10• Letters to the Editor
    A classroom with socially distanced desks is shown at Hollywood Park Elementary on Oct. 6, 2020.
  15. Seeing the results of gun violence as a doctor | Letters
    Jan. 9• Letters to the Editor
    A sign outside the Jackson Heights YET Center gym late last month, where Tampa interim police Chief Ruben "Butch" Delgado held a community forum on gun violence.
  16. Tampa Bay business leaders support Rays split season Montreal plan | Letter
    Jan. 8• Letters to the Editor
    Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld makes the case for a split-season with Montreal before a Ybor City audience last November.
  17. December letter of the month spotlights the goodness of people | Letters
    Jan. 8• Letters to the Editor
    Ihsanullah Patan, left, a horticulturist and refugee from Afghanistan, sits for a portrait with Caroline Clarin, right, whom he worked with in Afghanistan, and her wife, Sheril Raymond, at his home in Fergus Falls, Minn., Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. A U.S. Department of Agriculture adviser in Afghanistan, Clarin along with her wife have been using their own time and money to get Afghans who worked for her program out of the country. Those who have started their life in the remote town of Fergus Falls near the North Dakota border say they consider them family. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  18. My Republican friends don’t think like that | Letters
    Jan. 7• Letters to the Editor
    Fencing in seen along the western front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day. Some members planned a moment of silence. Others spent the day educating Americans on the workings of democracy. And still others don't think the deadly siege on Congress needs to be remembered at all. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
  19. Reckoning with the Jan. 6 insurrection | Letters
    Jan. 6• Letters to the Editor
    Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
  20. How to protect data from hackers | Letters
    Jan. 5• Letters to the Editor
    Specific protocols can help stop data breaches.
  21. I worked at a steel mill to pay for college | Letters
    Jan. 4• Letters to the Editor
    On May 17, 2018, new graduates line up before the start of the Bergen Community College commencement at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. There’s no single policy or action that will alleviate America’s $1.74 trillion student loan debt crisis while simultaneously preventing students from taking on unaffordable amounts of future debt. Higher education financing experts are divided on the exact combination of solutions, but all agree it will require a multipronged approach. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
  22. When will we treat COVID like the flu? | Letters
    Jan. 3• Letters to the Editor
    People line up and receive test kits to detect COVID-19 as they are distributed in New York on Dec. 23, 2021. More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
  23. The sun doesn’t shine on this dark money | Letters
    Jan. 2• Letters to the Editor
    Solar panels are used to collect energy across from Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station at TECO’s Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach.
  24. We need to remember why Prohibition failed | Letters
    Jan. 1• Letters to the Editor
    Tampa prohibition-era liquor bottles on display at the Tampa Bay History Center.
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