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  1. Where were the inspectors at the Tampa lead factory? | Letters
    2 hours ago• Letters to the Editor
    Pieces of lead called “slag” and other raw materials are stored in the containment room before being fed into the furnaces at the Gopher Resource factory in Tampa.
  2. Get rid of the annoying traffic light at Derby Lane on Gandy Blvd. | Letters
    Yesterday• Letters to the Editor
    Traffic on Gandy Boulevard heading east toward the Gandy Bridge.
  3. Are you part of the pandemic problem? | Letters
    Apr. 12• Letters to the Editor
    Leanne Montenegro, 21, covers her eyes as she doesn't like the sight of needles, while she receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a FEMA vaccination center at Miami Dade College, Monday, April 5, 2021, in Miami. Any adult in Florida is now eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine. In addition, the state announced that teens ages 16 and 17 can also get the vaccine with parental permission.
  5. Florida proposed cancel culture law reeks of ‘totalitarian stranglehold’ | Letters
    Apr. 12• Letters to the Editor
    The Capitol in Tallahassee is seen following Opening Day of the Florida Legislature in March.
  6. No winners in tragic Bayshore Boulevard traffic case | Letters
    Apr. 10• Letters to the Editor
    Judge Christopher Nash is shown a picture of Lillia Raubenolt while presiding over Cameron Herrin's sentencing hearing on Thursday. Herrin was sentenced to 24 years in prison for killing Jessica Reisinger-Raubenolt and her 1-year-old daughter, Lillia, in a 2018 traffic crash.
  7. Matt Gaetz and his ilk are ‘infants until the day they die’ | Letters
    Apr. 9• Letters to the Editor
    Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, addresses the crowd during a Donald Trump campaign rally at the Ocala International Airport last year.
  8. A carbon tax is just so sensible | Letters
    Apr. 8• Letters to the Editor
    A Tesla charges at a station in Topeka, Kan., on Monday. President Joe Biden and the auto industry maintain the nation is on the cusp of a gigantic shift to electric vehicles and away from liquid-fueled cars, but his big plan includes no carbon tax.
  9. Piney Point’s phosphate mess needs a new solution | Letters
    Apr. 7• Letters to the Editor
    This aerial view overlooks the site of the Piney Point wastewater release on Sunday in Palmetto.
  10. Why I favor ‘vaccine passports’ | Letters
    Apr. 6• Letters to the Editor
    Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday that prohibits businesses from requiring customers to provide any documentation that they’ve gotten a COVID-19 vaccine in order to gain access or service. Businesses that do will not be able to get state grants or contracts, the order said.
  11. It’s about the voting lines, not the water bottles | Letters
    Apr. 5• Letters to the Editor
    Georgia voters wait in line for early voting at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta last October. The sweeping rewrite of Georgia's election rules that was signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25 represents the first big set of changes since former President Donald Trump's repeated, baseless claims of fraud following his presidential loss to Joe Biden. Georgia’s new, 98-page law makes numerous changes to how elections will be administered, including a new photo ID requirement for voting absentee by mail.
  12. Don’t let North Atlantic right whales die on our watch | Letters
    Apr. 4• Letters to the Editor
  13. The March letter of the month: Signing dad up for a vaccination | Letters
    Apr. 3• Letters to the Editor
    Registered Nurse Annette Shelton of Med-Call Healthcare administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Cleopatra Sykes at Bethel Community Baptist Church in St. Petersburg on March 6, 202. More than 300 doses were administered to community residents who qualified. The pop-up site was sponsored by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Department of Health.
  14. Why is the public paying for a phosphate leak into Tampa Bay? | Letters
    Apr. 2• Letters to the Editor
    A view of a phosphogypsum stack, far, background, and water management at HRK Holdings’ property off Buckeye Road on Tuesday in Palmetto, where wastewater is suspected to be leaking at the old Piney Point phosphate plant.
  15. A carbon tax can help win the battle against climate change | Letters
    Apr. 1• Letters to the Editor
    Smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in Colstrip, Mont.
  16. Thank goodness, the Legislature is in session for only 60 days | Letters
    Mar. 31• Letters to the Editor
    The votes on HB 1, known as the "anti-riot bill," are displayed on a screen after the bill passed during a House session at the Florida Capitol on Friday.
  17. Government closest to the people is best - unless you live in Florida | Letters
    Mar. 30• Letters to the Editor
    The Capitol in Tallahassee is seen following Opening Day of the Florida Legislature in early March.
  18. Two ways to improve our income tax rules| Letters
    Mar. 29• Letters to the Editor
    The tax code is too complicated. It's time for reforms.
  19. Bright Futures for whom, exactly? | Letters
    Mar. 28• Letters to the Editor
    Opponents of a measure that would have altered Florida's Bright Futures scholarship program spoke to the Senate Education Appropriations subcommittee from a remote site on March 23. They won some concessions.
  20. Mayor, listen to the Rays’ ideas for the Tropicana Field site | Letters
    Mar. 27• Letters to the Editor
    The National Anthem is performed before an Opening Day game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays at Tropicana Field in 2016.
  21. Florida lawmakers should stop attacking local efforts to address climate change | Letters
    Mar. 26• Letters to the Editor
    Neglect of climate change portends risk to coastal states like Florida and future generations.
  22. How many guns do Americans need? | Letters
    Mar. 25• Letters to the Editor
    A solemn group of King Soopers employees, left, some from the Boulder store and some from the same district, brought large displays of flowers for each of the victims of a mass shooting at a Boulder Kings Soopers store on Monday. Each display had a card with condolences for the victims' families and signed by their King Sooper family. The group brought their flowers to a fence around the King Soopers where a makeshift memorial has been made for the victims of a mass shooting.
  23. Pass sensible gun regulation now | Letters
    Mar. 24• Letters to the Editor
    Shoppers are evacuated from a King Soopers grocery store after a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colo.
  24. Getting my vaccination was amazing! | Letters
    Mar. 23• Letters to the Editor
    People park to receive COVID-19 vaccines at the Tampa Greyhound Track FEMA vaccine site on Friday in Tampa.
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