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This artist's rendering provided by Hines shows a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays in the Historic Gas Plant district in St. Petersburg. Many letter writers doubt the stands will be as full as this rendering shows.
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Officials say they need to pay teachers and staff more to compete for talent.
Here’s what readers are saying in Sunday’s letters to the editor.

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  1. Editorial cartoon
  2. President Joe Biden, left, has battled a lifelong stutter. Former President Donald Trump, right, mocked Biden's impediment at a rally in Rome, Ga., last weekend when he was criticizing Biden’s State of the Union address. “Didn’t it bring us together?” Trump said. Then he made fun of Biden, mumbling unintelligibly and saying, “Bring the country t-t-t-t-together.” That incident upset a Times letter writer. (AP Photo, File)
  3. A Pride flag billows in the wind as students go to join a protest in Tampa earlier this year against what critics call the Don't Say Gay law.
  4. Hundreds of seized fentanyl pills that imitate Oxycodone M30 are kept as evidence at the Drug Enforcement Administration's Dallas Field Division lab on Aug. 1, 2023.
  5. This artist's rendering provided by Hines shows a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays in the Historic Gas Plant district in St. Petersburg. Many letter writers doubt the stands will be as full as this rendering shows.
  6. President Joe Biden now has enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination.
  7. Residents of Twin City mobile home park in Pinellas County navigate through the neighborhood in high waters on Aug. 30, 2023.
  8. An oak leafroller inches across a pollen-speckled window in Clearwater. This caterpillar is the immature or larval stage of the oak moth.
  9. Pastor Alfonso Jackson Jr. of New Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Miami talks about the importance of Black History Month to the congregation during a February service.
  10. The Hillsborough County School District announced in February it would rebuild and reopen Just Elementary School, near downtown Tampa. The district closed the school last year because of low enrollment.
  11. Hillsborough County recently rescinded impact fee relief for affordable housing developers. That will reduce the number of families Habitat for Humanity is able to assist. The CEO of Hillsborough Habitat for Humanity writes that the nonprofit is planning a 23-home development in Brandon and it estimates the economic strain on the organization to be $200,000 due to the removal of impact fee relief.
  12. Assistant poll clerk Leanna Silvestro minds the door at the Bay West Club’s precincts 410 and 412 on Aug 23, 2022, during the Hillsborough County primary elections in Tampa.
  13. Key findings from a USF poll.
  14. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 7. Biden is joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
  15. The gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the author writes, "saw fit to issue a subpoena to Harvard University last month in its ongoing investigation into antisemitism on campus. Before issuing a subpoena to Harvard, the committee had not issued a subpoena to an institution of higher education in its 157-year history." (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
  16. A person sleeps inside a makeshift shelter on a park bench in downtown Miami on Jan. 25. Florida will ban homeless people from sleeping on public property under a bill headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
  17. This photo from the St. Petersburg Police Department shows the Toyota Corolla that police said Owen Whittaker was driving on Dec. 9 when he ran a red light at the corner of 4th Street North and 72nd Avenue North and caused crash that killed a pedestrian and bicyclist. Whittaker will not face criminal charges in the crash. [ St. Petersburg Police Department ]
  18. The authors write that "many Floridians are being forced to pay for their ambulance trips out of pocket. Floridians can help by telling their state lawmakers to fight to make sure they don’t get stuck paying for their next ambulance ride by filling this gap in the system during the next session."
  19. The author writes that "if the American people disagree with Biden’s policies and prefer change, they should support his opponent. But in the absence of valid evidence of true cognitive impairment, their judgment should not be influenced by ageist social stereotypes."
  20. Editorial cartoon
  21. St. Petersburg City Council, city officials and the Tampa Bay Rays meet for the first time in public to discuss the terms of the Rays stadium deal and larger Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment on Oct 26, 2023, at City Hall.
  22. A school absenteeism problem is sweeping the nation.
  23. Children carry kitchen utensils as they walk toward a food distribution point in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 7, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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