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  1. In quarantine in Germany thanks to COVID | Letters
    Earlier today• Opinion
    A passenger waits for a Delta Airlines flight at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.
  2. I understand Texas culture, but AR-15s haven’t been available to teens for 60 years | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Texas Governor Greg Abbott arrives at a news conference in Uvalde, Texas Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a single classroom and "began shooting anyone that was in his way," authorities said Wednesday in detailing the latest mass killing to rock the U.S. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
  3. It’s up to us to solve America’s gun violence | Letters
    May 26• Opinion
    Kladys Castellón prays during a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Billy Calzada/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)
  5. These young scholars could teach the governor a thing or two | Letters
    May 25• Opinion
    The 2022 winners of the R.F. “Red” Pittman Tribune essay contest, left to right: Andrea Rodriguez, Newsome High School; Rowan O'Flanagan, Plant High School; Suhani M. Shah, Carrollwood Day School; and Ryan R. Kelly, Tampa Preparatory School.
  6. Top Hillsborough seniors want the full US history taught | Letters
    May 24• Opinion
    The African American History Monument on the Grounds of the South Carolina State House.
  7. A republic, if we can can keep it ... | Letters
    May 23• Opinion
    An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington.
  8. Why do they keep killing us? Are you a ‘they’ or an ‘us’? | Letters
    May 22• Opinion
    Howard Patton pays his respects at the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  9. The electric grid isn’t free | Letters
    May 21• Opinion
    FPL energy grid equipment in Fort Lauderdale.
  10. Integration and desegregation are different | Letters
    May 20• Opinion
    Members of the "Classes of 1970" in St. Petersburg pose for a group photo during a reunion on May 14, 2022, at the Club at Treasure Island. Attendees recalled being uprooted from all-Black Gibbs High during the 1969-70 school year and sent to predominantly white schools as part of a desegregation plan imposed on the Pinellas County school district.
  11. It’s the woman’s choice, how about that for a ‘compromise’? | Letters
    May 19• Opinion
    Chandler Jones, right, 26, who will graduate this spring from the University of Baltimore School of Law, participates in a pro-choice rally in Baltimore, Saturday, May 14, 2022. Jones consulted the internet on her cellphone for information and advice before having an abortion during her junior year in college. In a post-Roe world, if the Supreme Court soon reverses the 1973 decision that legalized abortion, as a draft opinion suggests it may, pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
  12. A better way to hold Bayshore driver responsible for crash that killed mom and toddler | Letters
    May 18• Opinion
    Cameron Herrin reacts the moment he hears his sentence — 24 years in prison — at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing on April 8, 2021. Herrin was the driver of a Ford Mustang that ran over a mother and daughter on Bayshore Boulevard in 2018, as Herrin, who was then 18, was racing another driver, John Barrineau. The Mustang hit Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt, who was pushing her 21-month-old daughter, Lillia, in a stroller across the road.
  13. Who will actually do something about unending gun violence? | Letters
    May 17• Opinion
    Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Monday, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  14. Time for Florida Democrats to ‘grow a spine’ | Letters
    May 16• Opinion
    “I Voted” stickers
  15. Here is a fair compromise on abortion | Letters
    May 15• Opinion
    Abortion rights activists protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Washington. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
  16. Please help save ‘our beloved’ Weeki Wachee River | Letters
    May 14• Opinion
    The state is about to start a multimillion dollar project to help restore the Weeki Wachee River. The river is being damaged, in part, by too many people getting out of their boats.
  17. How the Cross Bay Ferry has benefited Tampa Bay | Letters
    May 13• Opinion
    Guests line up to board the Cross Bay Ferry docked at the Tampa Convention Center in November 2020. Local governments have been subsidizing the ferry since its pilot season in 2017. [ LUIS SANTANA | Times ]
  18. Police need to be able to see those license plates | Letters
    May 12• Opinion
    The state redesigned the Tampa Bay Lightning specialty license plate in 2019.
  19. Here’s what a good teacher actually does | Letters
    May 11• Opinion
    Langston Hughes portrait used on cover of 1947 pocketbook edition of Mr. Hughes’ book, “The Ways of White Folks.”
  20. The Sunshine State? Let’s become the solar power state | Letters
    May 10• Opinion
    Rick Walker, vice president of FACTS engineering, walks through the company’s array of 677 solar energy panels on March 3, 2022, at the company’s 60,000-square foot design, engineering and manufacturing facility in New Port Richey. Walker said the building has zero net energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is roughly equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site.
  21. Here’s where we would be if those 63 million abortions hadn’t occurred | Letters
    May 9• Opinion
    An anti-scaling fence surrounds the U.S. Supreme Court, Thursday, May 5, 2022, during a demonstration in Washington.
  22. Think for yourself is letter of the month | Letters
    May 8• Opinion
    A view of Library West at the center of the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.
  23. Abortion rights, freedom and democracy | Letters
    May 7• Opinion
    People attend an abortion-rights rally at the Utah State Capitol Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
  24. This pro-life Democrat supports ending Roe | Letters
    May 6• Opinion
    Pro-life signs are seen outside the All Women's Health Center of Clearwater on Tuesday.
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