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  1. Why it’s dangerous to push Ukraine out of the headlines | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Rescuers work at the scene of a building that was damaged by a deadly Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on July 14.
  2. Let’s investigate why shippers let those containers pile up | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Ship to shore cranes work the container ship CMA CGM Laperouse at the Georgia Ports Authority's Port of Savannah, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Savannah, Ga.
  3. When I was young, my 11-year-old friend was raped | Letters
    Jul. 16• Opinion
    Abortion-rights activist rally at the Indiana Statehouse following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 25, 2022, in Indianapolis. The lawyer for an Indiana doctor who has found herself at the center of a political firestorm after revealing the story of a 10-year-old girl who traveled from Ohio for an abortion says her client provided proper treatment. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)
  5. Assault rifles are only part of the problem | Letters
    Jul. 15• Opinion
    Manuel Oliver, whose son was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, interrupts President Joe Biden during an event on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the gun violence reduction legislation, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
  6. Quit acting like a COVID lover and a willing host | Letters
    Jul. 14• Opinion
    Bryan Yeboah, 3, celebrates after receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination in his thigh from nurse Joanna Marie Pamintuan while being held by mother Perpetual Yeboah at the Kaiser Permanente Bruceville Center Vaccination Clinic in Sacramento on Thursday, June 23, 2022.
  7. Why are women almost never mass shooters? | Letters
    Jul. 13• Opinion
    People visit one of the memorials to the seven victims along Central Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 10, 2022.
  8. Here are some ways to build a healthy society after Roe | Letters
    Jul. 12• Opinion
    Hundreds gathered in downtown Tuscaloosa to protest the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, on Monday, July 4, 2022.
  9. A GOP Congress would save Biden? Yeah, right | Letters
    Jul. 11• Opinion
    President Joe Biden signs the executive order on access to reproductive health care services in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Friday, July 8, 2022.
  10. Laying more pavement is the road to nowhere in Tampa Bay | Letters
    Jul. 10• Opinion
    An historic TECO line streetcar at Centennial Park Station on Monday, June 27, 2022, in Tampa. It is experiencing its highest ridership in modern times due to development in Water Street and events in downtown Tampa, such as Tampa Bay Lightning hockey games.
  11. Crazy white people scare everybody is June letter of the month | Letters
    Jul. 9• Opinion
    A person carries a sign supporting QAnon during a rally in Olympia, Wash., on May 14, 2020.
  12. Trump and Gov. DeSantis: Compare and contrast | Letters
    Jul. 8• Opinion
    Gov. Ron DeSantis and then-President Donald Trump in 2020.
  13. What part of ‘well-regulated militia’ do you not understand? | Letters
    Jul. 7• Opinion
    Revolutionary War-era re-enactors enter Easton's Centre Square in Pennsylvania.
  14. From health to education, why does Gov. DeSantis look to out-of-state expertise? | Letters
    Jul. 6• Opinion
    In May 2016, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas delivers the commencement address to the 2016 Hillsdale (Michigan) College graduating class.
  15. A ‘little woman’ watches her rights fade away | Letters
    Jul. 5• Opinion
    A rally of about 200 pro-choice advocates gather at Syracuse's federal plaza to demonstrate against the Supreme Court in May.
  16. Let America unite by becoming more of ‘us,’ less of ‘them’ | Letters
    Jul. 4• Opinion
    On this Fourth, let's celebrate becoming more of "us" by embracing each other instead of separating into "us" and "them."
  17. Thanks, Paul Tash, for all that you did for the Times and for the Tampa Bay community | Letters
    Jul. 3• Opinion
    Paul Tash, the chairman of the Tampa Bay Times who has just retired, is pictured at his desk just after arriving at the newsroom earlier in June.
  18. An historic swearing in at the Supreme Court | Letters
    Jul. 2• Opinion
    Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., right, administers the Constitutional Oath to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, in the West Conference Room of the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Jackson was sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice.
  19. Lower-level staff, like Cassidy Hutchinson, are invisible but they see it all | Letters
    Jul. 1• Opinion
    Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is sworn-in as she testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
  20. When voting, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good | Letters
    Jun. 30• Opinion
    The Supreme Court with gates around it.
  21. Why does Florida lock No Party Affiliation voters out of primary elections? | Letters
    Jun. 29• Opinion
    "I Voted" stickers handed out after recent elections.
  22. On abortion and human rights, will the country move forward? Or backward? | Letters
    Jun. 28• Opinion
    In response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the Johnson County Democratic Party and Kansas Democrats hosted a demonstration Sunday in Johnson County near College Blvd. and Roe Ave., to demand defense of reproductive freedoms in Kansas. Participants called on Republican candidate Amanda Adkins to stand up for a person's right to choose and defend reproductive freedoms. The decision overturned 50 years of precedent and allows states to restrict access to essential health care.
  23. Women’s rights are ‘so lowly regarded’ | Letters
    Jun. 27• Opinion
    a bound copy of the Roe v. Wade decision signed by all nine Supreme Court Justices.
  24. Tarpon Springs commissioners show their ‘obvious prejudices and insecurities’ | Letters
    Jun. 26• Opinion
    Tarpon Springs City Commissioners Michael Eisner, left, and Craig Lunt, right, oppose a resolution that notes people of color and people with lower incomes are disproportionately affected by traffic crashes.
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