Around the web: A roundup featuring comments from tampabay.com. The comments included here are occasionally edited for length but otherwise appear as they did on the article or column online.

On an article about the Tampa Bay Rays ballpark proposal centering around using $467 million from a sales tax.

Let those who wish to be in the baseball business be in it. I don’t wish to be in the baseball business and should not be called upon to enable those who do. The simplicity is staggering, yes? — J. L.

Say NO! to billionaire welfare. There’s an upgraded Trop, refurbished with a new roof that there is nothing wrong with other than a billionaire baseball owner doesn’t like it. If the Rays can’t afford to pay for new stadium digs, they should stay put at the Trop. — R. Kaiser

If they can get $8-10B in private investors for the surrounding development, why do they need $1.15B for the stadium? It makes zero logical sense. And yes, the Rays and Ken Hagan’s County numbers should absolutely be verified independently. Have ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ stadium groups fund a shared economic impact study for the most unbiased view. — M. Cronin

Omg just build it. It’s a choice of having a very finite product (MLB baseball, community-college, residential center, business center) on a land that’s not being used that way. It will and should pay for itself. City needs to control ancillary money streams as much as they can from it though. — N.N.

On a column about Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier compensating for their perceived weaknesses.

Thanks again for eloquently pointing out the absurdity of Florida’s leaders and their behavior. AG Uthmeier is the same guy who said he would not prosecute or defend certain state and federal laws that he just didn’t like, even though that is what his entire job is. Prosecuting and defending laws. But in Florida’s authoritarian state of the Twilight Zone, here we are and November can’t come soon enough. — J. Davis

This was an entertaining op-ed sure to upset some while delighting others. However it fails to address the root cause of these crash and burn maneuvers and that is the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which is the blueprint for total authoritarian control of the population at every level. DeSantis and Uthmeier are simply foot soldiers in this well funded effort to hand control of our country to the wealthiest powerbrokers. — D. Hedding

On an article about the future of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Billionaires are using this facility to make more billions from industry, people and other countries. This should be self-funded, charge them enough to cover costs and make a profit. So Texas put out a lot of money recently, how much have Floridians paid from the beginning? This is the same set up as cities paying for the sports stadiums of billionaires. Some people in Tally don’t know how to run a business. We need to vote in people who do. — S. M

This is a state and national historical site and should be treated as such. So many successful missions have been launched from here. It’s also a tourist attraction and still people gather to watch lift offs. If we can divert state money for Hope Florida sneakily and under the table, we should find money to keep NASA and Cape Canaveral (Kennedy Space Center) as a working asset for our state and national. —J. Lyman

NASA is funded by the taxpayers and is part of the federal government. If they need more money, they should ask Congress. — K. Kier

On an article about the last legislative session ending before Gov. Ron DeSantis leaves office. Wow, how underwhelming once again. Fighting over woke agenda items while the important financial issues are neglected. When will our incredibly high insurance rates be addressed? Voter ID is a waste of time and anti-vote driven. Why? Terrorist designation? Just another First Amendment attack by DeSantis. Get some thicker skin. — H. Bruce