The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Back to the future

OUR OPINION: No surprises in Cuba’s sixth congress, just same old, same old

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Tallahassee’s harsh immigration bills flunk common-sense test

OUR OPINION: Immigration bills in Tallahassee a distraction of strident voices overwhelming common sense

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Halt Haitian deportations

OUR OPINION: Inhumane policy makes no sense

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Don’t tamper with state’s Supreme Court

OUR OPINION: Legislature’s attempt to overhaul judicial system is based on spite

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Fresh start

OUR OPINION: Gables electionbrings new blood

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Debt reduction deal is a must

OUR OPINION: Both sides will have to bargain to reach long-term relief

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Another Flori-duh moment?

FOCUS ON ISRAEL

Clock ticking on U.N. resolution

The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in March were only the last in a row of natural disast...

WORLD AFFAIRS

Is everybody happy?!

How happy are you? How happy is the country? This very important question has gradually gained attention ov...

HALLMARK

Hallmark offers inspiring Easter story

Growing up, Hallmark Hall of Fame represented the gold standard of what we would call today “...

CUBAN PARTY CONGRESS

Cuban Congress an ‘indictment of past 50 years’

At first blush, the just-concluded party congress in Havana was more of the same.

FLORIDA

Lawmakers must tackle city pensions

Imagine retiring at age 46 with a lump sum of $700,000 and an annual pension of $120,000. How about retirin...

GOP PRIMARIES

Here’s a candidacy written in stone

There are those who say we already have too many Republicans running for president. But a few believe we ne...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

Dismal mayoral race fails to excite

What does it tell you when the most interesting candidate for Miami-Dade mayor — the most quotable a...

Change of tune

Wasn’t it Texas Gov. Rick Perry who wanted to secede from the United States and wanted nothing from ...

RADIATION RELEASE

What’s the plan in case of Turkey Point disaster?

No plans exist to protect my city, South Miami, and its residents in the event of an emergency at the 40-ye...

HEALTHCARE

Laws turning doctors into ‘criminals’

Are doctors the new criminals in America? While government is providing more incentives for doctors to use ...

JUST A THOUGHT

Leave Bright Futures alone

After pulling all-nighters to study for AP tests and honors courses, registering and re-registering for the...

The readers’ forum

Volunteers look out for long-term-care residents

I want to recognize Florida’s Long-Term Care Ombudsmen, a dedicated group of almost 260 volunteers w...

For Mother Earth

Re the April 20 editorial, B ack to the future: Now, at 79, Raúl Castro officially is the...

Shut down lobbyists

Lobbyists and their ilk continue to influence our lawmakers to pass legislation to accommodate their specia...

A debt drama in five acts

Rarely has a credit rating company made such an astute observation of the human condition.

Keep public notices in the Sunshine in Florida

As fellow, red-blooded Americans who cherish the freedoms this nation provides, we at Florida TaxWatch hold...

A cliché expert’s guide to the deficit debate

To help guide us through negotiations over the federal budget deficit, the committee has invited Mr. Arbut...

Sexual Assault Awareness Month’s message: Get involved

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Begun in 2001 by organizations working to prevent sexual assault, ...

Don’t misunderestimate this firebrand from Minnesota

I will not poke fun at Michele Bachmann.

Muffling a voice for faith-based diplomacy

Elements with the State Department are trying to silence an American diplomat who believes that he was per...

Five Myths About Planned Parenthood

I was a Planned Parenthood affiliate chief executive, supervising a network of clinics in Upstate New York,...

In My Opinion

Year later, little in Gulf has changed

One year and 206 million gallons of oil later, all that gushes from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon is b...

The best Legislature money can buy

I once referred to a past Legislature as a festival of whores, which in retrospect was a vile insult to the...

This senator is lost in space

Recent polls show that Americans are already disenchanted with the new Congress, which is so collectively i...

In My Opinion

Lawmakers help muddy the waters around us

A few years ago, residents along the eastern St. Lucie River watched in disgust as the waterway turned gree...

Pill mills thrive as Gov. Scott nixes database

Last week, as drug agents secretly prepared to raid more than a dozen South Florida pill mills, Gov. Rick S...

In My Opinion

Bad photos make for bad politics

(Rejected first draft of a memo from House Speaker John Boehner to fellow Republicans following the ...

In My Opinion

Hey, gov: Don’t give pill mills license to kill

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi called a press conference last week to ban a new party drug known as MDP...

In My Opinion

In time of decline, royal wedding heartens pessimistic heart

When the bells ring and tell the world I’m taking your hand

In My Opinion

Florida keeps punishing innocent man

In My Opinion

Here’s the winners of the lying contest

“I f you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood. And that’s well over 90 percen...

In My Opinion

LeBron’s mom has oversized ego

The Civil War: ‘A conspiracy of amnesia’

‘‘It is not safe . . . to trust $800 million worth of negroes in the han...

TECHNOLOGY

Privacy: There’s no app for that

So, let’s say there’s this truly fine individual standing there across the room, and you ...

IN MY OPINION

Remembering MLK and the rights of labor

Once upon a long time ago, a tired man faced an audience of public workers. They were on a wildcat strike, ...

In My Opinion

The Donald: his life, hair, royal affairs

I’ll admit it. I’ve been mesmerized by The Donald for years — once I got over what he ...

In My Opinion

Meddling with union paychecks

Why would lawmakers who ran on a platform of jobs, jobs, jobs, be so fixated on wrecking havoc with public ...

In My Opinion

Post recall: Let the circus begin

The best thing to emerge from the recall of Mayor Carlos Alvarez? An election in about 60 days.

In My Opinion

With recall done, time to fix charter

A 17 percent voter turnout does not a mandate make, but the 88-12 percent landslide vote last Tuesday to &#...

In My Opinion

Rick Scott’s ideological blinders

It’s now official. Our non-blinking governor is encouraging legislators to join him in this wide-eye...

In My Opinion

Waiting for Gov. Rick Scott to blink

Will Florida go the way of Wisconsin?

In my opinion

County charter must change to bring real reform

Norman Braman is predicting a “tsunami” of voter discontent come March 15.

In my opinion

Bay of Pigs fiasco offers lessons for Obama’s Libya adventure

Rarely has the fog of war settled so quickly or as thickly as it has around President Obama’s Libyan...

NPR

Get NPR off the public dole

Honest — the column you are about to read does not argue that National Public Radio is progra...

EDUCATION

Inconvenient truth for teachers’ unions

I missed Sunday’s Oscar telecast. I was too busy watching the dead-solid lock for the award for Best...

Most successful Super Bowl commercials might not have made the air

If Sherlock Holmes were a TV critic (man, do I hate it when the ghost of Arthur Conan Doyle shrieks ...

THE 2010 FOLLIES

So, you're kidding, right?

History will likely record 2010 as the year Americans finally comprehended Obama math: 7.6 percent unemploy...

Stanford alum to Va. Tech: We’re No. 4; you’re not

You Virginia Tech fans with infirm hearts and nervous stomachs, stop reading this right now. I’m abou...

Most outrageous marching band in the land struts into Miami

Get the women and children off the streets! The owls and the Irish too! The Stanford Band is here for the O...