Immigration reform, on again

OUR OPINION: With stronger enforcement in place, time to finish the job

The Herald recommends

Below are our recommendations for the runoff elections in Miami and Miami Beach on Tuesday.

Stop the waste of water

OUR OPINION: Lawn watering three days a week wasteful

Victory for due process, rule of law

OUR OPINION: cf,gtm U.S. legal system capable of trying 9/11 terrorist suspects

Another Miami corruption mess

OUR OPINION: cf,gtm Constituents again suffer the consequences of their commissioners' shenanigans

The Herald recommends

Below are our recommendations for the runoff elections in Miami and Miame Beach on Tuesday.

The Herald recommends

OUR OPINION: cf,gtm For Miami Beach Groups 2, 3 commission runoffs

SARAH PALIN

Let GOP duke it out

For Sarah Palin, with her personality and history, to tell Rush Limbaugh that Republicans should welcome pr...

CUBA

Stand firm, America

Afew weeks ago, Cuban State Security agents beat up on the streets of Havana the internationally known Cuba...

SAMMY SOSA

Has it made you happy, being white?

MIAMI COMMISSIONERS

Sent packing

`IIt's a sad day in Miami,'' Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said with studied solemni...

SARAH PALIN

Sigh . . . here to stay

No force on earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own ``lite'' version of Eva Peron -- a glamor...

CHINA

Forced abortions abusive, deadly

One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.

OBAMA

High-level musings from China

Dear Michelle: Sure wish you were here -- China is really cool. Hey, remember how Nixon kept repeating,...

Virtual conviction

I was offended by the Nov. 15 editorial regarding suspended Miami City Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, ...

Redirect trade funds

The Nov. 17 article Trips off course? on the International Trade Consortium's (ITC) globe-trotting ways, po...

Over the top

I am a bit perplexed by the Nov. 15 Home & Design feature on Gil Dezer. Why did he let you photograph his r...

Training minnows

Training minnows So the Miami-Dade School Board has decided it's time for another round of ethics train...

Require ethics training for elected leaders

Whether you were shocked, outraged or saddened by the recent arrests of two city of Miami commissioners, th...

Cancer screening

Re the Nov. 17 story Experts criticize new advice on mammograms: The federal government's new guideline...

Rudeness prevailed

I have lived in Miami for 25 years and watched the City Commission closely, the good guys and the not-so-go...

Let's stick with mammograms

On Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a step backward in the fight against breast cancer....

Diplomacy best when dealing with Iran

Two days after Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage 30 years ag...

Fighting a health-insurance coercion clause

In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal h...

Execution: We still can't get it right

It has been a year and a half since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide moratorium on lethal injections,...

If conservatives ran healthcare . . .

If you're a progressive like me, and you're upset by the Stupak amendment, which bars federally subsidized ...

Castro's long goodbye

On July 27, 2006, Fidel Castro nearly died during emergency intestinal surgery to stem internal bleeding ca...

Bypassing the aid trap in Pakistan

Congress recently approved $7.5 billion in aid to Pakistan for social and economic development. The bill in...

The best politicians money can buy

Senate candidate Marco Rubio, once a distant underdog to a popular governor with a huge war chest, suddenly...

Dear Sarah: Keep up the great writing!

(Confidential response of Sarah Palin's book editor to the first draft of her upcoming memoir, ``Going Rogu...

Lawmakers' love affair with Big Oil

The mystery group trying to repeal Florida's ban on offshore oil drilling is winning converts the old-fashi...

Man bites dog: PSC rejects FPL rate hike

Astrange and curious event took place last week.

Posting mug photos online -- foul, not fair

Everybody looks guilty in a mug shot. Ask Nick Nolte or Heather Locklear.

Yeah, we're shrinking, but not enough

If you picked up the most recent Time magazine, you probably saw a story captioned: ``A Shrinking Sunshine ...

We're sick; the system's even sicker

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the health-care debate.

SAMMY SOSA

Has it made you happy, being white?

Reflections on the execution of D.C. sniper

They killed a killer last week. I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhamma...

AT LARGE

U.S. Muslims also have died to defend us

A sampling from the web: ``Why are these Muslim invaders allowed to carry on freely in this country -- ...

An act of appalling cowardice

We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-1990s, and it's unlikely he'll be a...

AT LARGE

Injustice compounded in McKinney case

Anthony McKinney got a life sentence for running down the street.

Sisters, your natural hair is beautiful to me

An open letter to African-American women: It's about the need to be beautiful, I know. As goals go,...

POLITICS

Party trumps country?

You figure the White House is probably feeling pretty good about itself right now.

OBAMA

High-level musings from China

Dear Michelle: Sure wish you were here -- China is really cool. Hey, remember how Nixon kept repeating,...

POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Left's been out for blood, too

For one, brief shining moment last week, I thought Nancy Pelosi must be the bravest American politician of ...

SCREEN GEMS

The week ahead in movies and TV

BIG SCREEN The Hangover (R): May is too early to proclaim any movie the funniest of the year, but for sheer...