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  1. ‘Bud lighting’ and the role of business in America | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The country's largest advocacy group for LGBTQ+ rights has suspended its benchmark equality and inclusion rating for Anheuser-Busch, citing the beer company's handling of hate-filled and transphobic backlash received after its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in April.
  2. Let’s keep church and state separate in Florida | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Principal Brendan Butcher and pastor Robert Gibbons posted a 21-minute video on YouTube explaining to families that St. Paul Catholic School in St. Petersburg would be increasing its 2023-24 tuition by thousands of dollars more than initially announced, in order to take advantage of state-funded vouchers.
  3. An Apple Watch saved my friend’s life after a fall | Letters
    June 1• Opinion
    Apple Watches can detect falls and call for help.
  5. In Ozarks, little sign of Trump flags and MAGA hats | Letters
    May 31• Opinion
    In September 2020, supporters of then-President Donald Trump decorated their boats with flags during a Labor Day boat parade at the Coralville Reservoir in Johnson County, Iowa. A letter writer saw little of this sort of thing during a Memorial Day weekend in the Ozarks in Missouri.
  6. Don’t worry so much about artificial intelligence. It needs us | Letters
    May 30• Opinion
    A screen displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by OpenAI.
  7. Where in the world is Gov. DeSantis? A flight tracker tails his plane | Letters
    May 29• Opinion
    A new Twitter account, @DeSantisJet, aims to track Gov. Ron DeSantis' travel on a state-owned plane. The account was created by the same Florida college student who stirred controversy by building an account tracking the private jet of Tesla and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
  8. Are Florida leaders ready for 5 million more residents? | Letters
    May 28• Opinion
    A photograph taken from the International Space Station shows Florida and the gulf coast. Five million more residents are expected in the state by 2030.
  9. Poet Amanda Gorman’s ‘The hill we climb’ and Rudyard Kipling | Letters
    May 27• Opinion
    Amanda Gorman recites her poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021.
  10. Florida traffic crashes are out of control. Let’s do something about it. | Letters
    May 26• Opinion
    Tampa Fire Rescue attends to a crash at S. MacDill Avenue between Swann Avenue and W Morrison Avenue in 2019.
  11. I’m part of Florida’s LGBTQ+ community. I feel scared. | Letters
    May 25• Opinion
    Thousands lined the streets of Central Avenue during the St. Pete Pride Parade in 2016.
  12. Can we really separate Florida from Floridians? This reader says not so fast. | Letters
    May 24• Opinion
    Florida as seen from space.
  13. Here’s why I’m staying in Florida, despite the embarrassing politics | Letters
    May 23• Opinion
    Freda Brown, 83, of New Port Richey is seen riding the new section of the Pinellas Duke Energy Trail north segment Friday, Aug. 5, 2022 in Clearwater. Friday marked the opening o the new trail which stretches 6.7 miles from Enterprise Road through Countryside to John Chesnut Sr. Park in Palm Harbor. The trail is completed except for some minor items and a pedestrian bridge over the Lake Tarpon Outfall Canal. Bridge construction is expected to begin next spring and conclude in summer 2024.
  14. Here why we must show respect for Florida’s trade school grads | Letters
    May 22• Opinion
    A scene from St. Petersburg College's electrical lineworker class in 2021.
  15. It’s not just the people, it’s too many cars in Tampa Bay | Letters
    May 21• Opinion
    Heavy traffic is seen along the southbound lanes of I-275 on the Howard Frankland Bridge in 2019.
  16. Will Florida ban surgeries for kids with cerebral palsy, spina bifida? | Letters
    May 20• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bills into law during a news conference at Cambridge Christian School in Tampa on Wednesday.
  17. Florida universities are No. 1. But readers didn’t like this column | Letters
    May 19• Opinion
    University of South Florida undergraduates gather at the Yuengling Center in Tampa for the fall commencement ceremony in 2016.
  18. Is Gov. DeSantis trying to defund Florida law enforcement? | Letters
    May 18• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the audience during a news conference at Cambridge Christian School in Tampa on Wednesday.
  19. Is the governor converting Florida’s universities into trade schools? | Letters
    May 17• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis talks during a press conference before signing education legislation on Monday at New College of Florida in Sarasota.
  20. Don’t know much about history | Letters
    May 16• Opinion
    Slavery artifacts: shackles from the Spanish slave trade, bottom left, an enslavement contract, top, and a receipt from September 1856 for a one-year lease of enslaved woman Diana and her three enslaved children signed by Tampa’s first mayor, Joseph B. Lancaster, pictured at Tampa Bay History Center. This is all part of our history.
  21. Why does Tampa Bay keep spilling sewage in paradise? | Letters
    May 15• Opinion
    Sandpipers wade into a section of the Stevenson Creek tidal estuary in Clearwater in this Times archive image from 2015. Raw sewage emptied into the creek on Tuesday after a piece of equipment malfunctioned at a city wastewater treatment plant.
  22. Here’s the tension between the common good and the individual | Letters
    May 14• Opinion
    Citaly Ramirez kneels at a memorial outside Allen Premium Outlets honoring the victims of a mass shooting in Allen, Texas, on Monday. Ramirez, her brother and their father were working at the mall at the time of the shooting. A gunman fatally shot eight people and wounded seven others May 6 at the Allen Premium Outlets mall before being killed by a police officer.
  23. We need better crosswalks for legally blind people like me | Letters
    May 13• Opinion
    Ann Brash, 66, walks with assistance from attorney Jelena Kolic in the 600 block of Chicago's West Madison Street in 2019. Brash, who is blind, was part of a group who sued Chicago for the development of audible crosswalk signals.
  24. Florida, our history textbooks and my broken taillight | Letters
    May 12• Opinion
    This taillight isn't broken, but one letter writer writes of driving with a broken one for a year without being stopped.
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