The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Gathering storm over insurance bill

OUR OPINION: Don’t let unregulated insurers into Florida

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Another loony ‘jobs’ bill

OUR OPINION: Out-of-state Internet companies should collect Florida sales tax but why a “freebie...

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Not so fast

OUR OPINION: Miami Beach needs to do its due diligence before approving tow-company increase

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Indecision roulette

OUR OPINION: Future of gambling in the Sunshine State remains unsettled

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Florida’s simpleton rankings

OUR OPINION: New state rankings of school districts do nothing to promote reform

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Is there a hero in the House?

OUR OPINION: Gov. Scott, state Senate need missing House support to crack down on bad ALFs

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Break the cycle of violence

OUR OPINION: End physical and emotional abuse during teen dating by speaking up

CASINOS VS. HIGH TECH

No casinos for now, what then?

It may be more of a suspension than surrender, but at least for now the proposal for mega casinos in Florid...

BP OIL SPILL

Don’t let BP fines paid for spill disappear into federal black hole

STAND YOUR GROUND

What we lose when we ‘stand our ground’

On March 18, 2010, Quentin Rashad Wyche and Kendall Berry, two FIU football players, argued about a girl. B...

IMMIGRATION

Republicans knocking on immigration’s door

Historically, when economic times are tough the topic of illegal immigration gains prominence in the natio...

AIDS

Progress in ending AIDS, TB, malaria but now funding is threatened

Poverty and disease leave little to celebrate, but an important milestone in the new millennium just passed...

POLITICS

The GOP’s tribal warfare

This was the week Mitt Romney should have sealed the Republican presidential nomination. He was expected to...

LEGISLATURE

To Sen. Storms: Let them eat cake

Up in Tallahassee, the irrepressible Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Ronda Knows Best, wants to peek into the grocery ...

Shame on Russia, China

Pictures of tanks and field artillery bombing civilians in major cities of Syria are made worse by the fact...

Can’t be trusted

What kind of a school system would keep Leslie Rainer as a teacher? She’s already shown she can ...

U.N. a waste

Why does our government continue to support the United Nations when the Security Council can’t even ...

The readers’ forum

Schools bill empowers business, not parents

When it comes to deceiving voters, Florida politicians earn an A+ every time. The Parent Empowerment Act or...

Church and politics

Kathleen Parker may be confusing President Obama with some of his Republican counterparts ( For Catholics, ...

Broader view

Often, after reading the news or observing the world, it is difficult for me to believe that no man is an i...

Too many ballots

I sympathize with Rochelle Lessner, who wrote the Feb. 6 letter Polling irregularities. As a 2011 candidat...

Stop Super Pacs with a fair-elections amendment

The 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case is fast becoming as explosive as Plessy v. Fer...

Gay-marriage ruling a memo to Justice Kennedy

What’s in a name? In 2008, supporters of a state ballot measure convinced a majority of California ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, and all that

The first Queen Elizabeth was standing under an English oak tree when she learned that she had become queen.

Federal ban on snakes lacks bite

Recently, a powerful lobby spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a bill that would have enhanced...

Military preparedness does not come cheap

Here’s something for critics of the country’s defense budget to ponder: After I was confirmed...

For Planned Parenthood, backlash pays off

Last spring, Cecile Richards’s BlackBerry buzzed with an unexpected text message. It was from her so...

Bullying women

You’d think the political process had turned into one big, sexy GoDaddy Super Bowl ad, with all the ...

Dream candidate? Only for Democrats

If you’re a Democrat, here’s what you’re thinking two days before the Florida’s...

Those big snakes are here to stay

Now that federal regulators have outlawed the importation of humongous, gator-eating pythons, all Floridian...

Haiti: Not trendy, not chic, just real news

Mitt wins … unless he blows it

Florida is being overrun by pundits and pollsters in advance of the upcoming Republican presidential primary.

Why some lawmakers are in panic

An absolutely true news item: Having passed a law allowing gun owners to bring their weapons inside the st...

Only in Miami: Indicted, but on the payroll

More proof that Miami is the worst-run city in America:

In My Opinion

Taxpayers harpooned on stadium

The new Miami Marlins stadium is rising to completion in Little Havana, and rising with it is the blood pr...

In my opinion

Obama’s hypocrisy on super PACs out of necessity

One of the worries we have obviously in the next campaign is that there are so many of these so-called sup...

In my opinion

Tim Tebow’s prayers on field: the personal versus public consumption

Really? Seriously?

And the winners are .  .  .

In a recent column, I announced a giveaway of 50 copies of The New Crow by Michelle Alexander. Twelve thou...

In my opinion

Don Cornelius created show that helped black kids come of age

In my opinion

Looking for morning in America

In my opinion

Rep. Giffords’ departure a blow to democracy

In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.

In my opinion

Practicing the politics of racial resentment

I got my first job when I was 12. The deacons at my church paid me $2 a week to keep it swept and mopped.

In My Opinion

Newt, Mitt and our next ambassador to the moon

To paraphrase Jackie Gleason’s legendary TV character Ralph Kramden, “To the moon, Newt!”

In My Opinion

‘Run for Roots’ moves the conversation on Cuba fast forward

Carmen Pelaez, a playwright and actress who grew up in Miami and made a name for herself nationally with he...

In My Opinion

On education, money counts

Money can’t buy you love, and maybe it can’t buy you happiness, but can it buy a top-notch ed...

In My Opinion

Latest budget fight in Miami-Dade a tragic comedy of political manipulation

There were moments of deep sadness in the midst of raw political maneuvering. The families of two slain off...

In My Opinion

Santa’s gifts for South Florida’s movers and shakers

This year Santa delivered special gifts to all the good boys and girls in South Florida, but it almost didn...

In My Opinion

The art of eating our own

Ask Pepe Croqueta — Miami’s Everyman — about some guy named Jorge Perez donating $35 m...

In my opinion

Stop bothering the Fed, you peasant taxpayers!

Breaking news: When it came to the collapse of the bubble that touched off the 2008 meltdown of the U.S. ec...

In my opinion

Does the GOP really want a return to the buggy-whip economy?

George Wallace, when he made a third-party run for the presidency in 1968, acidly observed that there wasn&...

Correction

A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation “funded a study on J...

In my opinion

Great moments in history? Not so much

I knew 2011 was going to be one of those years when I wrote a column saying that $80 billion of proposed fe...

In my opinion

In war on drugs, dissent ‘unpatriotic’

I owe Kyle Vogt an apology. A former military policeman, he’s now a member of a group called Law Enf...

Glenn Garvin

Giving bullies a veto on the First Amendment

Imagine five Jewish kids go to school one day wearing their yarmulkes. The school’s numerous skinhead ...