In My Opinion
Snake vendors hiss at Glades study
Oh my…. Rabbits. You really don’t want to see bunny rabbits at a reptile show.
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Fred Grimm joined the Herald in 1976. Since 1991 he has written a column about crime, politics and life in Broward.
E-mail Fred at fgrimm@herald.com
Disparate thoughts and random opinions of longtime Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm
In their despair, people who care deeply about public education in Florida sometimes get a little carried away.
Oh my…. Rabbits. You really don’t want to see bunny rabbits at a reptile show.
Ever read a history of the confounding relationships, intricate strategies, shifting coalitions, mighty egos and stunning miscalculations that led to the First World War?
The last official Census put Lafayette as the least populated county in Florida, with 7,021 residents, a tenuous ranking that could have changed with a one-night stand, given that Liberty County only managed to muster 7,022.
Normally the grand opening of an eyeglass store at a suburban mall on Kendall Drive would not be so very grand.
Driverless cars are hardly a new concept on South Florida freeways, where the oblivious, drunk and distracted swerve in and out of lanes. If they’re not kamikaze, they’ve got to be comatose.
First off, after my new company wheedles a contract to privatize a state prison, I intend to do away with traditional prison tattoos. Instead of tear drops or daggers or skulls or spider webs or barbed wire, none of which enhance an inmate’s commercial value, only corporate logos and slogans will be permissible.
Last semester, 1,619 Miami-Dade public school kids exploited the satirical potential of a new state law that adds an online class to their mandatory curriculum.
Slick move. Ask the voters in your little city to approve an ethics amendment “consistent with and limited to the requirements of Florida law.”
There it was, a veritable gambling paradise, smack dab in the Snake Creek Basin.
Its a case of mistaken identity.
Remorse for an ethical transgression was not much on display as Sylvia Poitier left her sentencing hearing in the Broward County Courthouse Wednesday. I want the whole world to know that Im not guilty.
Pondering the budget Gov. Scott sent to the Legislature, Im overcome with something similar to the sentiment suffered by adults in the lobby of Disney Worlds Animal Kingdom Lodge.
My town. My tawdry, wannabe town. And Scott Rothstein knew what we wannabe. He called it a rock star lifestyle.
Job-killing government regulators are at it again. Now they want to take away our beloved pythons.
If nothing else, the presidential candidates who dominated the news in 2011 brought an old guy a new revelation. Made me feel like Brando. Made me feel like shouting from the waterfront, I coulda been somebody. (Instead of a bum, which is what I am.)
It wasnt much, considering what the Miramar cops did to Anthony Caravella, but last year Circuit Judge Thomas M. Lynch offered an apology on behalf of the criminal justice system of the state of Florida.
Compared to modern school kids, I was a downright worthless student.
Unrestrained conflicts of interest. Little accountability. Slip-shod ethics. Lax oversight. Add landlords and developers and for-profit management companies to the formula. Tempt them with $400 million dollars of public money.