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Mary O'Connor acknowledges her supporters moments before being sworn in as the 43rd Chief of Police of the Tampa Police Department on March 25 at the Tampa River Center in downtown Tampa.
Tampa’s violent crime is way up. What’s the new police chief’s plan? | Editorial
Public safety is essential to continued urban renewal.
A last-minute Tax Day guide for professional procrastinators
Ferris Bueller would never file early.
You have three extra days this year. Make it count.
Sea level rise is like the mother of all weather delays for the Rays | Letters
In 2007, the Tampa Bay Rays proposed building a $450 million, 34,000-seat stadium on the site of Al Lang Stadium off St. Petersburg's waterfront with a sail-like retractable roof. The plan went nowhere, and 15 years later the Rays say a waterfront stadium could be more expensive because of climate change and the threat of flooding and rising seas. [ Tampa Bay Rays ]
Here’s what readers are saying in Thursday’s letters to the editor.
Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services

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  1. Tampa’s violent crime is way up. What’s the new police chief’s plan? | Editorial
    4 hours ago• Opinion
    Mary O'Connor acknowledges her supporters moments before being sworn in as the 43rd Chief of Police of the Tampa Police Department on March 25 at the Tampa River Center in downtown Tampa.
  2. Sea level rise is like the mother of all weather delays for the Rays | Letters
    Earlier today• Opinion
    In 2007, the Tampa Bay Rays proposed building a $450 million, 34,000-seat stadium on the site of Al Lang Stadium off St. Petersburg's waterfront with a sail-like retractable roof. The plan went nowhere, and 15 years later the Rays say a waterfront stadium could be more expensive because of climate change and the threat of flooding and rising seas. [ Tampa Bay Rays ]
  3. A last-minute Tax Day guide for professional procrastinators
    Earlier today• Opinion
    Ferris Bueller would never file early.
  5. Editorial Cartoons for Thursday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  6. Let’s save more lives and revisit the donor process | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Marie Woody picks up a cooler containing a cornea specimen At the Lion’s Eye Institute on Monday, April 4, 2022, in Tampa.
  7. Call it a stealth coup | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The Stop the Steal March on Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill.
  8. Three examples of the hypocrisy in Tallahassee | Editorial
    Yesterday• Opinion
    Marchers make their way toward the St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg on March 12 to protest the controversial "Don't say gay" bill passed by Florida's Republican-led legislature. (Martha Asencio-Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
  9. Could wedge issues be the cure for polarized politics? | Column
    Yesterday• Opinion
    President Bill Clinton gives a thumbs leaving a meeting with Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on Nov 20, 1995, in Washington, D.C. Clinton was a master of using wedge issues to his advantage. (Richard Ellis/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
  10. Tallahassee politicians: Property insurance is a pocketbook issue. Deal with it | Letters
    Yesterday• Opinion
    The Driftwood Inn in Mexico Beach was destroyed by Hurricane Michael. [DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times (2018)]
  11. Editorial Cartoons for Wednesday from Times Wire Services
    Yesterday• Opinion
  12. Listen to the civilian witnesses in Ukraine | Editorial
    Apr. 5• Opinion
    An elder woman cries as she crosses the Irpin River near a destroyed bridge outside of Kyiv on April 2.
  13. Tampa Bay should plan smart, resilient infrastructure now for a prosperous tomorrow | Column
    Apr. 5• Opinion
    Apollo Beach is one of many communities in Tampa Bay vulnerable to future flooding as seas rise.
  14. Hey, new Tampa Bay residents: Summer is coming and no one will be spared
    Apr. 5• Opinion
    Storm clouds roll in to Clearwater Beach, Sunday, August 15, 2021 in Clearwater.
  15. What would Allies have done in World War II had they known? | Letters
    Apr. 5• Opinion
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy examines the site of a recent battle in Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Apr. 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
  16. Editorial cartoons For Tuesday from Times Wire Services
    Apr. 4• Opinion
  17. Why not just require the financial literacy course that’s already taught? | Letters
    Apr. 4• Opinion
    Economics teacher Brian Ayres, shown teaching an AP macroeconomics course at Brandon High in 2019, has said students don't get time to learn financial literacy in that advanced curriculum. The state now will require a separate financial literacy course for high school graduation.
  18. On the 201st try, America finally passes an anti-lynching bill | Column
    Apr. 3• Opinion
    Emmett Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, at home in Chicago.
  19. COVID and shrinking body parts are subjects of the March letter of the month | Letters
    Apr. 3• Opinion
    A COVID-19 particle is pictured in this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  20. Here’s what to read from the left and the right | Column
    Apr. 2• Opinion
    Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election — furthering then-President Donald Trump's lies that the free and fair vote was marred by nonexistent fraud, according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
  21. Bucs coach Bruce Arians makes the roundup of highs and lows across Tampa Bay and Florida
    Apr. 2• Opinion
    New Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles, left, arrives with outgoing head coach Bruce Arians before an NFL football news conference Thursday.
  22. Investing early in children pays huge dividends | Column
    Apr. 2• Opinion
    According to the Ounce of Prevention Fund, at-risk children who don't receive a high-quality early-childhood education are 25 percent more likely to drop out of school, 40 percent more likely to become a teen parent and 50 percent more likely to be placed in special education.
  23. What we women of Hillsborough are working to accomplish | Letters
    Apr. 2• Opinion
    The Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Castle is seen at the National Mall in Washington. The Smithsonian commemorated Women’s History Month by displaying 120 3D-printed statues depicting women who have excelled in the fields of science and technology.
  24. Editorial Cartoons for Saturday & Sunday from Times Wire Services
    Apr. 1• Opinion
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