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  1. Why I think Biden should continue as long as he wants | Letters
    4 hours ago• Opinion
    President Joe Biden addresses the United Nations General Assembly Leader's Reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Tuesday.
  2. Here’s the Lucy Morgan story that rocked my world | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Pulitzer Prize-winning St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times reporter Lucy Morgan multi-tasking with videocamera and phone (c. 1980s). Photo by Donn Dughi
  3. Nothing Citizens Insurance does really surprises me anymore | Letters
    Sept. 22• Opinion
    People are seen near damaged properties on a broken section of Pine Island Road on Sept. 29, 2022, in Matlacha, after Hurricane Ian made landfall on the coast of South West Florida as a Category 4 storm.
  5. I guess I’ll just watch the Rays on TV | Letters
    Sept. 21• Opinion
    A fan displays a sign regarding the Tampa Bay Rays’ stadium deal during a game against the Los Angeles Angels at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
  6. Now that Rays plan a new stadium, letter writers have some thoughts | Letters
    Sept. 20• Opinion
    A rendering of the Rays' news stadium and development project for the Historic Gas Plant District. Courtesy of Hines
  7. Your choice to skip the new COVID vaccine hurts my elderly parents | Letters
    Sept. 19• Opinion
    Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach receives a COVID-19 vaccination at the military hospital in Berlin on Monday. (Lisi Niesner/Pool Photo via AP)
  8. So, Dr. Ladapo, if this vaccine is ‘untested,’ why is it OK for me and others over 65? | Letters
    Sept. 18• Opinion
    A pharmacist administers the new COVID vaccine to a patient in Eagle Rock, California, this week.
  9. Saying ‘no’ is one small way to make my voice heard | Letters
    Sept. 17• Opinion
    Officers stand outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in Miramar in July. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
  10. Follow COVID advice that can save your life, not endanger it | Letters
    Sept. 16• Opinion
    A pharmacist fills a syringe with a COVID vaccine.
  11. Dr. Ladapo, just what kind of COVID advice is that? | Letters
    Sept. 15• Opinion
    Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Wednesday recommended that Floridians under 65 should not get the new COVID vaccines.
  12. A few thoughts on Trump and the 14th Amendment | Letters
    Sept. 14• Opinion
    In this photo from Jan. 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the "Stop The Steal" Rally, in Washington, D.C..
  13. Here’s how to solve the Pinellas beach renourishment standoff | Letters
    Sept. 13• Opinion
    Col. James Booth, district commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, speaks during a briefing Friday in Indian Shores. The Army Corps of Engineers worked to explain beach renourishment along some Pinellas County beaches as they fielded questions from elected officials and local residents.
  14. Gov. DeSantis’ Florida blueprint would fail in DC | Letters
    Sept. 12• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen at the commemoration ceremony on the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on Monday in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
  15. Tampa Bay polluters must pay a heavier price when they foul our waterways | Letters
    Sept. 9• Opinion
    Cleanup crews work on an oil spill near Port Manatee. The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating.
  16. Florida property insurance companies must take some blame for current crisis | Letters
    Sept. 8• Opinion
    People are seen near properties damaged by Hurricane Ian last year on a broken section of Pine Island Road in Matlacha.
  17. The U.S. will get through our current troubles. We’ve been through worse. | Letters
    Sept. 7• Opinion
    The American flag flies in front of the U.S. Capitol dome in 2021.
  18. It is no surprise that Florida has a teacher shortage. The facts tell the story. | Letters
    Sept. 6• Opinion
    The state Department of Education said there were 4,776 teacher vacancies in the state. The teachers' union said the number was more than 6,900.
  19. Trump or Biden, it’s time to overhaul a president’s power to pardon | Letters
    Sept. 5• Opinion
    Former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden.
  20. Don’t ban Florida books. Homeschool your kids instead. | Letters
    Sept. 3• Opinion
    A collection of complaints submitted by Bruce Friedman and Vicki Baggett. The two Floridian's accounted for more than half of the roughly 1,100 complaints reviewed by the Tampa Bay Times. Friedman has said that he has spent hundreds of hours combing through a database of more than 5,000 titles scoured from the internet and filing complaints for those he finds objectionable.
  21. Florida’s Idalia victims won’t get a financial break when buying kitchen appliances | Letters
    Sept. 2• Opinion
  22. Why do so many Floridians needlessly put first responders in harm’s way? | Letters
    Sept. 1• Opinion
    Rescue workers with Tidewater Disaster Response, from left, Mike Foster, Zack McCue, and Zack Hoeth, of Fairfax, Va., search SW 358 Hwy for people in need of help where the Steinhatchee River remained out of its banks on Wednesday, after the arrival of Hurricane Idalia on Florida's west coast at Taylor County in the Big Bend area.
  23. Florida doesn’t need a bakery police. Bring back Publix’s hurricane cakes. | Letters
    Aug. 31• Opinion
    Publix bakery putting the final touch on a hurricane Dorian cake in 2019. The supermarket company has stopped making hurricane cakes.
  24. Why let two people ban so many Florida books? | Letters
    Aug. 30• Opinion
    Parent Bruce Friedman, left, addresses the Clay County School Board on Aug. 4, 2022, and teacher Vicki Baggett speaks to the Escambia County School Board on May 16. Together, the two advocates submitted more than 600 book complaints over the last year, accounting for more than half the statewide total.
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