The Honduran solution

OUR OPINION: Plan devised with U.S. support offers a way out of four-month-old political crisis

Don't go drill crazy in the Everglades

OUR OPINION: Everglades jetport best for environmental mitigation bank

Honey, I forgot to land the plane

OUR OPINION: New rules needed to eliminate pilot distraction

Healthcare system overdue for reform

OUR OPINION: Sen. Bill Nelson should play key role in healthcare reform

Local perspectives

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY `REDLAND RAISED' IS SMART CALL A visitor to Miami-Dade will surely notice downtown M...

Builder's arrest offers lessons, lost promises

OUR OPINION: Developer Dennis Stackhouse's arrest offers lessons

Freeze credit card rates

OUR OPINION: Stop increases on credit cards before new law takes effect

VERBATIM

Regulating the financial market

Below are excerpts from AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka's recent testimony before the House Financial S...

PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION

A challenge for Miami port

Despite the global recession, the sounds of construction are well underway along the pathway that brings ab...

FOX NEWS

Truman's advice for Obama

Harry Truman could've taught Barack Obama a thing or two about how to deal with a hostile press -- basicall...

AFGHANISTAN

On Hamid Karzai's tightrope

With the ``reelection'' of President Hamid Karzai, if that's the right word for a process that featured fra...

HONDURAS

Anything can still happen

Anyone familiar with the Honduras crisis can be forgiven for being skeptical about the viability of last we...

CUBA

Is U.S. facing a dead end?

The Obama administration may be going down a dead end. In an Oct. 13 meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jo...

POLITICS

Is trouble ahead for the Democrats?

Ayear after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high u...

Statement ``ill advised''

Re a Nov. 4 article Jackson, UM leaders square off in which I am quoted as saying, ``I would not send my fa...

Real energy efficiency

The Oct. 26 editorial, Uninspiring energy-efficiency standards, was long on rhetoric and short on specifics...

Ashes of destruction

On 9/11 we were attacked by cowardly enemies who hate everything that our nation stands for. They hate our ...

Not a cool idea

Our president thinks it is a great idea to give some $200 million of our tax dollars to FPL so it can find ...

Untrue rumors

The Humane Society of Greater Miami Adopt-A-Pet, a limited-admit, adoption-guarantee organization, merged w...

Fighting oppression

I appreciated Ellen Goodman's Nov. 2 Other Views column A little short of paradise on the state of women's ...

Bad timing

I got a chuckle reading Glen Garvin's Nov. 3 Other Views column The funny numbers game. Garvin's ``war on m...

Public challenge, private courtship

With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tape of Ronald Reagan's famous speech at the ...

Lessons from Virginia for the GOP

After losing Virginia's governorship for the first time in eight years, some Democrats are trying to consol...

Medical tourism: Outsourcing your health

At a luxury hotel conference center in Los Angeles last week, ``international hospitals'' from Singapore to...

An unusual prescription for healthcare

In looking at healthcare reform, Congress and the Obama administration are missing a key remedy that could ...

Don't target Afghan farmers

There is concern that our continued efforts in Afghanistan are being undermined by widespread corruption wi...

We need a cyber-czar

In May, President Barack Obama completed his long-awaited ``cyberspace policy review,'' concluding that cyb...

here On Aug. 16, pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., told his...

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.

Hate the job, but, oh, those fringe bennies!

We hear the question all the time: Why would anyone in their right mind go into politics?

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.

IN MY OPINION

Party trumps country?

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

Balloon hoax exemplifies perverse era

For hours, the fear was that the boy would be found smashed to jelly somewhere, so my first emotion upon le...

AT LARGE

As you sow, so shall you reap, brother

We are gathered here today in sympathy with our brother, Rush Limbaugh.

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 ...

THE '60s

What's not being celebrated

If the Americans who fought World War II are the Greatest Generation, their children are the Greatest Erase...

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...