Carl Hiaasen: Once again, we’re the poster child for scandal

By Carl Hiaasen

Anyone who thinks the healthcare apparatus in this country doesn’t need radical liposuction should read through the new federal report on hospital costs.

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Carl Hiaasen: It’s too easy to become a terrorist

By Carl Hiaasen

Authorities say that the two brothers who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon were probably “self-radicalized.”

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Carl Hiaasen: Legislature approves ethics reform — no joke!

By Carl Hiaasen

Promise not to laugh?

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Carl Hiaasen: Rubio comes up short on gun control

By Carl Hiaasen

Marco Rubio showed his true yellow colors last week, joining 45 other cowards to defeat Senate legislation designed to stop criminals from buying firearms online and at gun shows.

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Carl Hiaasen: Good news and bad on Dolphins stadium deal

By Carl Hiaasen

Incredible as it seems, Miami-Dade voters might actually be allowed to decide whether or not tax dollars are used to renovate the Dolphins football stadium.

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Carl Hiaasen: NRA’s task is to frighten, sell more guns

By Carl Hiaasen

The National Rifle Association wants to give me a “heavy-duty” duffel bag.

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Carl Hiaasen: Big Sugar’s subsidy — how sweet it is

By Carl Hiaasen

Cut by cut, the forced budget reductions known as the sequester are beginning to affect millions of Americans.

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Another scandal in Tallahassee? You bet!

By Carl Hiaasen

In Florida, not much is asked of the lieutenant governor.

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Carl Hiaasen: This Florida citizen outraged by Citizens insurance

By Carl Hiaasen

Rick Scott campaigned for governor on the promise of running Florida like a big business, but the one big business that Florida actually runs is out of control.

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Nude face-eating cannibal? Must be Miami

By Carl Hiaasen

All of us who live in Florida struggle to explain this bizarre place to distant friends and family.

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Stadium plan a 'bifurcated rip-off'

By CARL HIAASEN

The Dolphins will seek a new state law that could increase bed taxes in both Miami-Dade and Broward, and would allow Broward officials to send its revenues across the county line to help renovate the football stadium. This is what you call a bifurcated rip-off.

We should all have an ex like this one

By CARL HIAASEN

Every divorced guy would love an ex-wife like Barbara Gomez. As the chief of Miami's public housing agency, she helped funnel more than $1 million in city contracts to companies employing one of her former husbands.