Letters to the Editor
Letters: Orlando is more than tourism | U.S. wilts in spotlight | Pass voter ID
A downtown historic preservation moratorium would weaken, not strengthen, Orlando's future, which is about a...
Letters: Protect red snapper | World Cup joy | Two-party failure
Gov. Ron DeSantis cannot open federal waters to red snapper fishing or override federal regulations....
Letters: Save Seminole’s rural boundary | Vance and Nixon | Immigration compromise
Seminole County voters can fight back against developers' attempted takeover of the rural boundary.
Letters: Uthmeier pardoning wrong people | Socialism vs. capitalism
Florida's attorney general arrested a man who was, he said, wrongfully pardoned by Joe Biden....
Letters: State court’s imbalance | A Christian nation? | Don’t mess with mail
Bud Gardner, a former state senator and House member, says the die was cast when...
Letters: Americans must protect their freedom
We must protect our freedom As we approach the 250th anniversary of our independence, standing...
Letters: Mail-in voting fraud | Donalds’ checkered past | Joining Israel
Fixing fraud in mail-in voting, as proposed USPS rules intend to do, is another phony...
Letters: U.S. bungling Iran | Growing aggression | Criticize behavior, not person
The war with Iran is over. Or is it? A memorandum signed hastily by President...
Letters: Property-tax cut for rich | Foreign aid protects U.S. health | Trump’s brazen corruption
Another win for the billionaires Does anyone find it interesting that after a number of...
Letters: Ingoglia’s spending | Flaws in Pledge of Allegiance | Florida’s rigged elections
The use of outside counsel for state business is a wasteful expense that CFO Blaise...
Letters: Protect city landmarks | Understand property-tax bill | Primaries should include NPAs
Do city landmarks have value? Exactly 50 years ago, Orlando's Historic Preservation Board was created...
Letters: We can’t depend on Tallahassee | ‘In God We Trust’ represents America
Cutting taxes may sound great, but eliminating local property taxes makes no sense for essential...
Letters: Hold on to downtown history | Straight talk defines Trump | Gun lobby’s power
A reader finds it astonishing that the City Council has proposed an ordinance to suspend...
Letters: UFC’s toxic masculinity | A vote for remote work | Recalling Reagan’s civility
Americans should be appalled by the message the White House UFC spectacle sends to the...
Letters: Treasure Orlando history | OUC should control energy future | The end of work-from-home
As the former chair of Orlando’s Historic Preservation Board writes, once a historic building is...
Letters: Historic review must stay in Orlando | Tax cut affects infrastructure
A plan to roll back protections of downtown Orlando landmarks shows the City Council is...
Letters: Property-tax elimination — disaster or diversion?
Readers speak out about the proposal to eliminate property taxes in Florida.
Letters: State weakens home rule | Controlling cat population | Unwelcome tax shift
Tallahassee is steadily taking decision-making away from local communities, weakening local control and accountability.
Letters: Sentinel sets the standard | Religious liberty at risk | ‘No’ on property tax cut
The Orlando Sentinel mattered to one reader because it showed her a world outside her...
Letters: Citizens United upended politics | Uncle Lou and the rule of law | UFC is a step too far
The 2010 court case, which brought corporate influence squarely into the middle of elections, tipped...
Letters: Where repairs are most needed | Find candidates who thrill | Rotating on taxes
Community's cracks run deeper than concrete The other day, while riding my bike through my...
Letters: Plan for storms to come, tax plan could be disaster, missing middle ground
Fight hurricane damage through preparation Thank you to Bill Kearney for his terrific article about...
Letters: Some white men’s DEI blind spot | Private schools best? | Return to Confederacy
Discrimination is easy to see for one writer, who is learning to understand why some...
Letters: U.S. doesn’t value Puerto Rico | Don’t cut property tax | Climate change is overhyped
Why is Puerto Rico not the 51st state yet, after all the sacrifices Puerto Rican...
Letters: Don’t cut property taxes | Israel’s actions in Gaza | War is Trump’s distraction
A recent column detailed the governor's plan to end property taxes, but didn't mention how...
Letters: Can GOP think for itself? | Schools, teach bike safety | Return of Jim Crow
Republicans don't have to impeach Donald Trump to free themselves of his harmful policies. Just...
Letters: Keep e-bikes out of pedal-bike lanes | What does ‘justice’ mean? | Coastal erosion
A pedal-bike rider is not eager to share bike lanes with any motorized vehicle, such...
Letters: Stop exploiting captive animals | Fight voter suppression | Trump’s follies
The recent sloth deaths at Sloth World showed that the public's appetite for captive animals...
Letters: Insurrectionists’ windfall | Reject schools without rules | Construction during drought?
Donald Trump, who has said he “backs the blue” of law enforcement, is now committing...
Letters: Adapt to e-bikes | Punishing surrogacy | Laws aren’t always popular
Rather than place more restrictions on the people saving money and causing less pollution than...
Letters: Bush is wrong about vouchers | AI vs. moral compass | Anti-surrogacy bill goes too far
School choice can be valuable. But when taxpayer dollars are involved, accountability and fairness should...
Letters: UCF boos showed fear of AI | Ballroom isn’t helping the needy | Trump’s greedy IRS settlement
UCF students booed a speaker for touting AI, but listen to the experts because sometimes...
Letters: DeSantis is divider, not unifier | Senior-living crisis
DeSantis had an opportunity to leave Florida’s political stage and emerge nationally as a unifier...
Letters: Trump doesn’t care | Leaders focused on wrong things | Political rebellion
"I don't think about Americans' financial situation," the president said when discussing the goal of...
Letters: Congress won’t stop unjust war | Court stacked against minorities
Congress is ignoring Eisenhower's warnings about the "military industrial complex" and overspending on wars.
Letters: Inflation or corporate greed? | Publix open-carry signals | Money is Trump’s religion
CEO pay grows much faster than worker pay, a phenomenon one reader calls greedflation.
Letters: Auto safety goes too far | No wealth tax for homeless | DeSantis’ lust for power
Cars need safety regulations, but the back-to-basics approach worked a generation ago, why not now?
Letters: Scott, Moody aren’t listening | Vouchers devouring schools | Magic’s Weltman shares blame
A frustrated reader writes that when it comes to communication, our Florida senators are no...
Letters: Fund the homeless crisis | Dyslexia perspective | Comey’s seashells
Our society needs funding to solve the problem of homelessness, as well as other problems....
Letters: Brightline wasn’t going to work | Summer’s lethargy | ACA failure
The idea of Brightline was a high-speed train from Miami to Orlando. But where exactly...
Letters: Don’t monetize wildlife | Fix insurance fast | Trump’s economy
Don’t pay to ‘encounter’ wildlife The criminal investigation into Sloth World, following the deaths of...
Letters: We must control strait | Florida elections are rigged
Get tough in strait Once again, news reports are full of confusion and ideology. However,...
Letters: Felons and guns | Ballroom funding? | Pointless wars
Florida's attorney general says some felons should be allowed to carry guns. He's wrong.
Letters: Energy blockade hurts Cuba’s poor | White men’s advantage | Authoritarian
U.S. policy, which has stopped fuel from being exported to Cuba, has badly hurt farming...
Letters: DeSantis controlling Legislature | Bail abuse | Charlie Gray’s legacy
Gov. Ron DeSantis' gerrymandering is another attempt to get what he wants at the expense...
Letters: Honoring Charlie Gray | Zoo legislation is harmful | Who is the ballroom for?
Every community has those who, when needed, rose to meet the needs of the community...
Letters: Land-lease hurt by corporations | Simmer heated political rhetoric | Orban’s defeat
Land-lease residents own their homes but not the land beneath them leaving them vulnerable when...
Letters: Congress must expand to remain fair | Release sloths to the wild | Fishback out of touch
The impact of gerrymandering and Fair Districts would shrink if we made districts smaller and...
Letters: The prejudice of white men | Following orders | Health scare
A white, male reader mocks "the terrible prejudices and difficult hardships" that his people can...
Letters: DeSantis’ DEI stance is right | Cabinet’s corruption hurts us | Impeach Trump
Diversity, equity and inclusion, known as DEI, should not be funded because it discriminates against...
Letters: Sanford development should proceed | Amyloidosis awareness | Looking past Trump
A nixed mixed-use development in Sanford would have provided affordable housing, but the city let...
Letters: Conserve water | What is Bondi hiding? | Honoring the Pledge
April is typically Florida’s driest month, and as temperatures increase, rainfall lags behind plants’ water...
Letters: Don’t spoil Leu Gardens | Juries and justice | Conserve water
Renovation plans for Leu Gardens have some worried that the peaceful enclave will be ruined.
Letters: Value of school field trips | Happy Earth Day | Pope too combative?
Seminole County students at a recent board meeting were admirable and strong in their defense...
Letters: Serve before criticizing soldiers | Focus on issues | Don’t denounce pope
A letter criticizing the armed forces would be less forceful coming from a civilian.
Letters: Supporting school choice | Voting rights under attack | Economy first
For the second year in a row, more than half a million Florida students have...
Letters: U.S. Armed Forces are a disgrace | Iran strategy in shambles | Careful with language
Actions in Iran, Venezuela and elsewhere make it hard to look up to today's military.
Letters: GOP should prune its bad apples | Get measles vaccine | Stop Trump
Through agreement or capitulation, some Central Florida Congress members aren't doing their part to stop...
Letters: President right on Hormuz | Time for Trump to go | Spare us the profanity
The Strait of Hormuz is located in international waters and that means that a country...
Letters: Counties can block overdevelopment | Thanks to airport workers | Military, not Trump, must win war
Counties, using taxpayer-funded conservation programs, should purchase development rights directly from landowners and protect them...
Letters: Don’t fly by the needs of people on our home planet | Leave airport name alone
There is an emerging wave of “excessive space propaganda” following the Artemis II mission.
Letters: Risk game isn’t foreign policy | Build Seminole offices | Congressional sycophants
The board game Risk rewards ruthless players bent on world domination. That shouldn't be Donald...
Letters: Obama’s AG deserves scorn | An eye on deep space | Congress mocks constituents
Criticism of outgoing attorney general Pam Bondi brings to mind the earlier issues with Eric...
Letters: Increase legislators’ pay | Don’t compare Trump to Jesus | ICE is out of control
Making less than $30,000 per year, legislators can't always afford to give their full attention...
Letters: Seminole’s wasteful building | Leading with kindness | Why a White House ballroom?
Seminole County is planning a $160 million government building -- but why do it in...
Letters: Theme-park class envy | Not just a Christian nation | U.S. double standard
Front-of-line passes at Disney and Universal can make you understand class envy.
Letters: U.S. isolationism | Hawaii’s calm resolve | Occupational therapy works
As Donald Trump threatens Iran, he threatens changes to everyone's way of life.
Letters: Will ‘No Kings’ protests do any good?
Letter-writers differ on the importance of Saturday's protests — will leaders listen or will this...
Letters: America beyond Trump | Working-class priorities | Wounded veterans
When Donald Trump is voted out of office, will our new normal be just as...
Letters: Small kindness at big protest | GOP won’t let Democrats work | The Trump dollar
An attendee of the Lake Mary "No Kings" protest says moving conversations and a small...
Letters: Democrats’ hope in Tallahassee | Lessons in diplomacy | Positives of EVs
Democrats may feel overwhelmed by the national train wreck, but state elections this week provided...
Letters: Invasive billboards | Voter-fraud obsession | Chaos in Iran
Billboards and chain-link fences are ruining the views of Central Florida.
Letters: ICE isn’t right for airports | The oppressed are not powerless | Not the best and brightest
Is ICE really going to be doing the job of the TSA at airports, or...
Letters: More honesty in government | SAVE Act harms voting | Trump is enemy of democracy
Retiring Winter Park commissioner Marty Sullivan writes that government's bedrock value of honesty is being...
Letters: Kudos to Grady Judd on immigration | Dangerous spring break | Elections are legit
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and other members of the State Board of Immigration Enforcement...
Letters: Insurance reforms hurt wallets | Vote values, not labels | Companion animals
Two letter-writers lament the high cost of home insurance, without any culpability for the large...
Letters: Another step toward Pulse memorial | Should NATO, EU help in Iran? | Noem’s performance
Local leaders deserve thanks for their actions after the Pulse massacre and their work toward...
Letters: GOP harming all | Another Middle East war | Declaration was prescient
“First they came for the Communists and I did not speak out” teaches a lesson...
Letters: Why are we bombing Iran? | Putin’s hold on Trump | Noem’s success
There's no end in sight to U.S. attacks on Iran. When will Congress act?
Letters: Insurance reform pushback | Keep fluoridated water | Kirk wasn’t worthy
A letter-writer pushes back on an insurance agent's insistence that state insurance reforms would be...
Letters: Start school later | Insurance reforms work | Muslim celebration
A parent poll showing opposition to later high school start times should be ignored --...
Letters: Florida Senate’s bad bill | Property taxes voters’ fault | DEI ban shows hate
The Senate failed to pass a bill making it easier to obtain public records, but...
Letters: Don’t let teachers have guns | Support SunRail | Crackdown on unions
If there’s a concern that there are guns on college campuses, how does adding more...
Letters: Managing growth | Attorney discipline | Russia’s hold on Trump
The state Legislature is trying to handcuff any responsible local constraints on growth (for the...
Letters: Don’t censor racist past | Fighting for free speech | Who’s a terrorist?
Reading about systemic racism, which is now in the process of being censored, made one...
Letters: Tariffs are working | Restore Ocklawaha | Value American workers
Trump tariff policy is working Now let me see if I've got this straight. To...
Letters: Harmful H1-B visa limits | War is all about oil | Seeking Iran leader
The recent ban on H-1B visa applications for potential public university employment will contribute to...
Letters: Donald Trump’s war | Shooting headline missed point | Overgrowth hurts Florida
The Iran conflict is clearly meant for Donald Trump and his far-right hawks, not for...
Letters: Stop McCulloch expansion | Climate change is real | GOP power grab
A proposed expansion of McCulloch Road along the Seminole/Orange border benefits developers and no one...
Letters: Leave the Ocklawaha dam alone | Change hotel tax for infrastructure
Two letter-writers say that removing the Ocklawaha dam is an affront to nature.
Letters: Insurance reforms lacking | Unfair wealth tax | Voter ID ideas
Contrary to a recent guest commentary, the success of any insurance reform is determined by...
Letters: U.S. chose Iran war | World Cup in Orlando? | UF shares blame for Uthmeier
The weekend attack on Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces is a case of the...
Letters: Trump can’t be serious | World Cup in Orlando? | Climate editorial went too far
So can we take everything Donald Trump says with a grain (or a block) of...
Letters: Florida needs revenue fix | Stop political retaliation | Blame UF for Uthmeier hire
Adopting a state income tax or other large measures are needed to fix budget priorities.
Letters: Take Trump seriously | Where was Frost? | Save minimum wage
Conservatives don't always take what Trump says seriously, but they take him seriously.
Letters: Obama video was appalling | Uthmeier disrespects workers | Laws of nature
A recent meme posted by President Trump's account showing the Obamas as primates stepped over...
Letters: Utility reform | No to Trump’s airport | Uthmeier at UF
The Affordable Energy Reform is a chance for legislators to do something about the affordability...
Letters: Trump getting the job done | Uthmeier and corruption | Rubio praising Orban
Bombastic or not, President Donald Trump is keeping his promises and doing a good job.
Letters: Keep Uthmeier from classroom | Keep water issues local | Jackson’s lesson
The Florida attorney general shouldn't have a side job as a UF law professor.
Letters: Protecting home rule | Rollins’ stolen land | Trump jabs Olympians
One writer says politicians in Tallahassee who are doing the bidding of corporate and elite...