MiamiHerald.com: Issues & Ideas http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Issues andamp; Ideas http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Issues & Ideas 60 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:23:37 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com States rethink cash given to film industry http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136542.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136542.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Teriyaki wings and state film subsidies rarely go together, unless you're in the prepared-food line waiting for Burn Notice to get its lunch. Finding a balance to commenting on our website http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1138050.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1138050.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT José Villamil of Miami is one of a number of readers asking about reader comments posted under articles on The Miami Herald's websites. Some, like Villamil, want more options with the system. Others question why commenting so often turns raw and sarcastic. Some suggest The Herald should simply give up on commenting. Chávez appeal wearing thin in Latin America http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136540.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136540.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT It's hard to imagine anyone who misses the presidency of George W. Bush more than Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. While Washington all but ignored Latin America in the last decade, Chávez managed to bolster his standing at home and beyond by mocking Bush, the man he described as producing sulfurous emissions in the manner of the Devil himself, and by warning of the threat from ''The Empire,'' his term for the United States. Sotomayor defies easy labeling http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136544.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136544.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Sonia Sotomayor is a groundbreaking nominee for the Supreme Court who defies easy pigeonholing. She's a tough-minded former prosecutor who's denounced the death penalty. Obama vow of public debate on healthcare fading http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136532.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136532.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Campaigning for president, Barack Obama said repeatedly that any overhaul of the healthcare system should be negotiated publicly and televised for all to see. Throughout this year's negotiations, however, the big deals have been struck in secret. Supreme Court message: No more quotas http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136541.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT In striking another blow against the use of racial quotas, the Supreme Court challenged the nation's first minority president and Congress to help lead us to a post-racial America. Legal analysis lacking in coup coverage http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136537.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136537.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Parachuting into a foreign crisis can be journalistically treacherous, not least because, out of ignorance, you may get the story wrong. The Herald's Frances Robles, a foreign correspondent with experience in the region, faced a particularly daunting situation as she landed two weeks ago in Honduras, faced with two men claiming to be president and an unusual coup. Finding a balance to commenting on our website http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136545.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1136545.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT José Villamil of Miami is one of a number of readers asking about reader comments posted under articles on The Miami Herald's websites. Some, like Villamil, want more options with the system. Others question why commenting so often turns raw and sarcastic. Some suggest The Herald should simply give up on commenting. Here comes a backlash against `big government' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126804.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126804.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Whether it's over healthcare, climate change or most other big Washington battles this year, Congress keeps debating the same underlying issue -- is the federal government getting too big and intrusive? Looking back at the warning signs of financial disaster http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126820.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126820.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT One of the pivotal questions from the recent financial swindles, including the mammoth case that led to Bernard Madoff's 150-year sentence last week, is whether regulators could have done more to prevent them. Helping the hemisphere's poorest http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126806.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126806.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT It was the divide that caught my eye. Two weeks before the coup that ousted Honduras' elected president, we were driving down a boulevard here in San Pedro Sula, the nation's second-largest city. Kiosk offers high-tech way to visit mom in jail http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126803.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126803.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Almost every Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Candace McCann sits down for a face-to-face meeting with her daughter. Sometimes 7-year-old Kashmir draws a picture. Other times she stands on a chair to model an outfit: jeans and a Hannah Montana T-shirt or new shoes. Lately she's been opening her mouth, showing off lost teeth. Jon, Kate -- and care that's not so great http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126807.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1126807.html Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Poor Jon and Kate. Their marriage is over, their show on hiatus, their domestic ordeal entering a new phase of acrimony. Possibly nothing could have saved this marriage, but one thing would have made it less fragile: a mandate for health insurance to cover in vitro fertilization. Here's how to transform education http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1121693.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1121693.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00 EDT Like Amazon.com revolutionized the retail industry and iTunes modernized the music industry, technology has the potential to transform education in America. Sansom case exposes lawmakers' culture of secrecy http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1116571.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1116571.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT As the courtroom door swung open, Ray Sansom immediately headed for the elevator. Reporters scrambled to catch up and ask the ousted House speaker what he told the grand jury. Our writers learning new ways to cover Iran's difficult story http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1117838.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1117838.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:31 EDT At one point, while correspondent Warren Strobel was interviewing a group of young voters in Tehran, government guards dressed in riot gear muscled into the discussion, broke up the interview and forced the youths to flee. Say, doc: I'll trade (fill in blank) for a root canal http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1116583.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1116583.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT As the economy continues to drift, more and more uninsured Floridians are getting healthcare services without paying a dime. They're part of a small but growing group of people who barter for the services their insurance doesn't cover. Hall of Fame exhibit 'Viva Baseball' focuses on Hispanics in baseball http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1116591.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1116591.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT This summer, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., is marking its 70th anniversary with, among other highlights, Viva Baseball, its first permanent exhibit on Latin American baseball. At the exhibit's opening, former first baseman Orlando Cepeda spoke for the nine Latinos already inducted into the Hall. ''To be here today,'' he said, ``we went through some obstacles.'' With a new webcast, Andres Oppenheimer expanding his reach http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1106170.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1106170.html Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT You'll notice a new feature on The Miami Herald's website each Monday: Andres Oppenheimer, the region's premiere Latin American observer, will draw on his print and television commentary to create a weekly video report on MiamiHerald.com. Why the local focus? It's what folks want http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1106188.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/1106188.html Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:01 EDT Readers often complain to me that The Herald in its coverage is interested in selling newspapers. I often scratch my head. So? Within ethical limits, a motivation to sell newspapers is good. It's a free-market incentive that makes reporters, editors and everyone in the paper work hard, work well and respond to what we as readers want. The ethical limits include prohibitions on slanting stories with opinion or misinformation.