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  1. I was vaccinated but got COVID at a Lightning game. Be careful out there. | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    Jacob Alexander, 14, gets second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic, hosted by Mothers In Action in collaboration with L.A. County Department of Public Health at Mothers in Action on July 16, 2021, in Los Angeles.
  2. Stop speeders all the time | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    Florida Highway Patrol troopers work the scene of a mulit-vehicle crash on southbound I-95 in Hollywood, which was the result of a high-speed chase on May 19, 2021. The chase began in Fort Lauderdale.
  3. I paid for my Social Security | Letters
    Jul. 21• Letters to the Editor
    Workers and employers pay into Social Security.
  5. Why is Gov. DeSantis in Texas when Red Tide and COVID are in Florida? | Letters
    Jul. 20• Letters to the Editor
    Dead fish fill the end of a harbor at Cordova Boulevard NE off Snell Island in St. Petersburg on Friday.
  6. Come on, Trump won’t help push vaccinations | Letters
    Jul. 19• Letters to the Editor
    Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on July 11, 2021, in Dallas, Texas.
  7. The truth matters in Cuba and in America | Letters
    Jul. 17• Letters to the Editor
    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, speaks during a news conference at the offices of Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., alongside Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez, left, and Marcell Felipe, right, founder of the Inspire America Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting democracy in Cuba and the Americas, Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Miami. DeSantis and other officials pressed the White House on Thursday to support efforts to preserve internet service to antigovernment protesters in Cuba, even advocating the use of giant balloons as floating Wi-Fi hotspots to allow images of dissent to stream unabated from the authoritarian nation. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
  8. On Red Tide, DeSantis should just offer help | Letters
    Jul. 16• Letters to the Editor
    St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman speaks at a press conference on Red Tide at Crisp Park on Wednesday.
  9. Tired of fish kills? Tax carbon. | Letters
    Jul. 15• Letters to the Editor
  10. Thank the city workers who are cleaning up the Tampa Bay fish kill | Letters
    Jul. 14• Letters to the Editor
    St. Petersburg city employees clean up a fish kill from Red Tide along St. Petersburg's Bay Vista Park last week.
  11. How responsible gun owners act | Letters
    Jul. 13• Letters to the Editor
    Michael Taylor, also known as "The Armed Fisherman" walks along Pier 60 in Clearwater with 2-year-old Ocean and his assault rifle and fishing gear on, July 2, 2021.
  12. With a draft, would we have quit Afghanistan a long time ago? | Letters
    Jul. 12• Letters to the Editor
    U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an East Room event on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan at the White House on July 8, 2021, in Washington, D.C..
  13. ‘I knew Jim Crow’ is the June letter of the month | Letters
    Jul. 11• Letters to the Editor
    U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, and a 2022 U.S. Senate hopeful, speaks to the South Baldwin County Common Sense Campaign tea party during a breakfast on June 10, 2021, at the Gift Horse Restaurant in Foley, Ala.
  14. Florida Republican leaders set Hillsborough schools up to ‘fail’ | Letters
    Jul. 10• Letters to the Editor
    Kids Community College fifth-grader Thaddeus Jackson, middle, rallies with his mom, guidance counselor and dozens of other charter school supporters outside the Hillsborough County School Board's June 29 special meeting.
  15. The Lightning are a national inspiration | Letters
    Jul. 9• Letters to the Editor
    Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov celebrates with the Stanley Cup after the Lighting defeated the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 Wednesday.
  16. How liberals and conservatives think | Letters
    Jul. 8• Letters to the Editor
    A Penn State student walks in the rain past Old Main on the Penn State main campus in State College, Pa.
  17. Wait, doesn’t the Legislature believe in letting the marketplace decide on STEM? | Letters
    Jul. 7• Letters to the Editor
    Supplies are stored outside the horse stalls to leave a clutter-free area inside in which horses can move freely in case they become jittery with the sound of fireworks, at Saddle Up Riding Club, Friday, July 2, 2021 in Pinellas Park.
  18. Why wouldn’t Florida want to teach more civics? | Letters
    Jul. 6• Letters to the Editor
    A message recorded by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2020 welcomed students in the Civics Fellows Program at the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus last week. This week, DeSantis vetoed a bill that was unanimously supported in the House and Senate that would establish the program into law citing concerns over promoting certain "orthodoxies."
  19. The court ruling doesn’t make Bill Cosby any less guilty | Letters
    Jul. 5• Letters to the Editor
    Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in September 2018.
  20. ‘Self-gratifying exhibitionism’ is not the way to teach Tampa Bay’s high school students | Letters
    Jul. 4• Letters to the Editor
  21. Should Floridians really be eating octopus, ‘the Einsteins of the sea’? | Letters
    Jul. 3• Letters to the Editor
    Common Atlantic octopus
  22. I was a Pinellas County restaurant server. Here’s why I’m not going back to that job | Letters
    Jul. 2• Letters to the Editor
    Some restaurants have found it hard to lure back servers and other workers as the COVID crisis subsides.
  23. The American military isn’t the problem. America is | Letters
    Jul. 1• Letters to the Editor
    Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on Jan. 6.
  24. Repealing the Second Amendment and closing the gun show loophole | Letters
    Jun. 30• Letters to the Editor
    Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifles for sale at a gun show in Loveland, Colo., last year.
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