Recent Editorials
Recent Editorials
- Theft at the Pump: Pay Inside Gas Station for Security
- Energy Politics Power Ahead: Lights Out in Capitols
- Gulf of Mexico Oil Blowout: We Helped Make It Possible
- Overseas Car Sales: GM Turns Corner
- Winter Haven Pay: Small Change, Big Impact
- Closed Polk Meeting: 'Democracy' in the Dark
- Primary-Election Deadline: Get Ready to Vote
- Impact-Fee Moratorium: Just Half a Dose of Hemlock
- Oil-Drilling Special Session: Florida's Do-Nothing Legislature
- Impact-Fee Moratorium: Don't Lose More Jobs in Polk
- Special Legislative Session: Keep It Simple, About Oil
- Death by Prescription: Florida's Pill Pipeline
- Atheist Lawsuit: Lakeland Invited Trouble
- Organ Donation: Make Generosity Easy
- Florida's Water Supply: Cheap, Ignored, Wasted
- Post-Traumatic Stress: New Rules for Veterans' Care Helpful
- Special Session on Oil Drilling: Legislature Cannot Be Trusted
- State Reapportionment: Tallahassee Sought to 'Clarify'
- 'Required Instruction': Trim Florida's Long List
- Polk Impact Fees: Don't Duplicate Failure
- Cuban Travel Restriction: Return Infiltration Favor
- G-20 in Toronto: Come Down From Summit
- Public Service Commission: Power Shorts Out Tallahassee
- Balanced Federal Budget: Impossible Done in Six Hours
- Unprocessed Claims to BP: Lost in Oil Well Rupture
- Lakeland Railroad Crossings: The Silent Treatment
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Declaration of Independence
- Firearm Court Decision: One Ruling, Two Hits
- Polk Charter Review: A Pitiful Performance
- Florida School Funding: 'They Have Abdicated Their Duty'
- Oil Blowout's 11th Week: Questions Without Answers
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