"The problem we have for our patients is 40% of or patients do not have access to a computer, it discourages their will to get a vaccine. We are trying to help them. Libraries should have a help desk for them"

-- Marcie Linder from County opens a new Covid vaccination site in Largo

"Shipping containers do not need to be just for affordable housing. They have been using them all over the world in densely populated areas and they can actually be amazing and unique places to live. I’m sure the cost in the US is higher than in other countries because of our regulations, but this unique form of housing can be a game-changer if costs can be kept in check."

-- Christopher J Koback from Shipping containers could become low-cost apartments in St. Pete

"I watched city council members and County Commissioners support Mayor Kriseman’s dismantling of Jordan Park. Those same individuals did nothing to support Jordan Park as long as it was led by a black man – who was able to keep the project moving in spite of public efforts to see him fail. That project would have put 30 seniors in decent and affordable low income housing. If affordable housing was such a priority why would public officials support the dismantling of the Jordan Park senior village?"

-- Maria Scruggs from As St. Pete revisits affordable housing, one council member gets personal about why it matters

"It will take more than winning the Stanley Cup, Super Bowl, and baseball reaching the World Series to change the perception. Tampa and the Tampa Bay area as a whole need to promote and foster things that are emblematic of a city such as culture, i.e. one of the largest, if not the largest, performing arts center in the southeast, one of the oldest LGBTQ film festivals (TIGLFF) in the country, the largest collection of Dali art outside Spain, etc., our modern, world-class airport (TPA), our Latin culture, commitment to innovation, small businesses that give a place an identity, and so on. There is much potential and opportunity here, if we foster it and promote it. We need to drive the narrative and not allow the media to tell our story they way they want to tell it."

-- Rob Akins from Despite media fixation, maskless celebrations won’t stop region’s rise