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Letter to the editor: The City of Orlando must re-evaluate its approach to a Pulse memorial

'Instead of disassociating from the OnePulse Foundation's flawed approach, the City appears intent on replicating its missteps.'

Apr 4, 2024

To the editor: The presence of a gift shop erected by the OnePulse Foundation on the Pulse Nightclub property, mere feet from the bullet-riddled facade, served as an initial indication that something was amiss in Orlando following the mass shooting that killed 49, injured over 50, and traumatized over 200 more. However, it was the Foundation’s dissolution at the close of 2023 — after expending millions of dollars without laying a single brick — that unequivocally signaled the depth of the problem...

Kiosk selling T-shirts, memorabilia, at site of Pulse Nightclub

Opinion: 'The Orlando Museum of Art is still bogged down in a crisis of integrity'

Sep 28, 2022
Letters to the editor: Thanks a lot, Grandpa

'Not only is Grandpa feeling free-er by having his freedom taken away, he is voting in grifters who will take his money.'

By Orlando Weekly readers
Jul 27, 2022
Former Rep. Ric Keller writes in about ‘The day I locked up Martha Stewart’

By Ric Keller and Jessica Bryce Young
Jul 16, 2022
Op-ed: An open letter to the chairwoman of the Orlando Museum of Art Board of Trustees regarding their exhibition of fake Basquiat works

By Samuel S. Flax
Jun 29, 2022
Readers react to rabbi's legal challenge to Florida's abortion ban and surgeon-general's vax opposition

By Orlando Weekly readers
Jun 22, 2022
Orlando Weekly readers react to the HB 1557, the 'Don't Say Gay' bill

'Knuckle draggers' and 'glitter bombs'

By Orlando Weekly readers
Mar 11, 2022
Undercover cops sting a weed doc; Orlando Weekly readers think it was a waste of time and money

By Orlando Weekly readers
Mar 2, 2022
Readers react: a divisive vegan return and a limp DeSantis condemnation

By Orlando Weekly readers
Feb 9, 2022
Readers sound off against domestic violence, cannabis flower limits, invasive water plants

By Orlando Weekly readers
Jan 26, 2022
Letters to the editor: Readers react to Gov. DeSantis’ proposed ‘Stop W.O.K.E. Act’

By Orlando Weekly readers
Dec 22, 2021
Readers sound off about $5 million in state money going to Camping World Stadium

By Orlando Weekly readers
Dec 15, 2021
Your words: Readers get crabby about the Immersive Van Gogh Orlando experience

By Orlando Weekly readers
Dec 7, 2021
Readers sound off: Why critical race theory is necessary, stolen elections, and airlines' aberrant assumptions

Letters to the editor

By Orlando Weekly readers
Dec 2, 2021
Letters to the editor: 'If you don't want Donald Trump back in the White House in 2024, the Democrats need to change course'

By Orlando Weekly readers
Nov 24, 2021
Readers sound off about scooters, crocodiles and Travis Scott's Astroworld

By Orlando Weekly readers
Nov 17, 2021
Last week Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered a rant on ‘wokeness’; Orlando Weekly readers reacted

By Orlando Weekly readers
Nov 10, 2021
Readers speak out on 'Gun school: A true story of fear, fatherhood and the collapse of the empire'

Letters to the editor

By Orlando Weekly readers
Nov 3, 2021
Orlando readers speak out on voting rights, abolishing the filibuster

By Orlando Weekly readers
Oct 27, 2021
Readers react: 'No' to a road through Blanchard Park, 'yes' to pitching in to combat climate change

By Orlando Weekly readers
Oct 13, 2021
Readers react: Tucker Carlson and Matt Gaetz; Is Florida a leper colony?, and the Florida Man song

By Orlando Weekly readers
Oct 6, 2021
Readers react: Freedom to vote and Orlando's worst intersections

By Orlando Weekly readers
Sep 29, 2021
Letters to the editor: $15 per hour is a joke in Orlando; September is Library Card Month

By Orlando Weekly readers
Sep 22, 2021
In this week's letters to the editor, Florida's COVID deniers were, for once, nowhere to be found

By Orlando Weekly readers
Aug 18, 2021
Letters to the editor: DeSantis has failed Florida ‘bigly’

By OW Readers
Aug 4, 2021
An open letter from 57 medical groups calling for all healthcare workers to be vaccinated

Jul 28, 2021

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