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• Consider the conditions

  Consider the conditions

  Re the Jan. 14 article U.S. in damage-control mode: Although a group of Marines urinating on slain Taliban fighters is an incident that shouldn’t be taken lightly, we need to imagine the conditions that our troops are enduring. The region is freezing cold in the winter and blistering hot in the summer. We are fighting a vicious enemy that doesn’t play by any rules.

• Negotiate exchange with Cuba

  Negotiate exchange with Cuba

  The Cuban government has proposed to the State Department that Cuba is willing to exchange Alan Gross for the five Cuban spies imprisoned in the United States. However, the United States has said it is not willing to negotiate with Cuba on this issue.

• Man Pays 58-Year-Old Parking Ticket

  Man Pays 58-Year-Old Parking Ticket

  Dale Crawford honestly didn't know about a parking ticket he was given nearly 60 years ago until he found it in a box of mementos just recently.

• Jobs, not weapons

  Jobs, not weapons

  When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many strategists suggested that the Cold War arms race had bankrupted its economy and caused its downfall. More than 20 years later, it appears that some in Washington are driving the United States toward a similar fate.

• Tell the whole story

  Tell the whole story

  Your May 1 story Martelly ignites controversy in Miami congressional race, accuses the neophyte president of Haiti of interfering in the election for the congressional seat held by Rep. Frederica Wilson. The story gets more space than any other in the paper, but somehow there’s no room to mention the long and bloody history of U.S. interference in Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and Mexico — the list is long.