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• Tuesday May 1: Any Way To Get Smith & Scott To Stop Standing Their Ground?

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  How politically charged has the aftermath of George Zimmerman's killing of Trayvon Martin become? Florida's elected officials can't even get together on one way of determining the quality of the "Stand Your Ground" law.
  
  State Sen. Chris Smith, D-Fort Lauderdale, has just announced' [...]
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• Tuesday April 3: Time To Address Coded Racism

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  African-Americans spent 300 years trying to be freed from slavery. They spent the next 100 years trying to gain equal rights to white Americans.
  
  There's no question that blacks have made significant progress - capped in 2009 with the inauguration of President Barack Obama. But' [...]
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• March 13: Get City Residents Involved in MB Convention Center Re-Do

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  In 1983, the city of Miami built the James L. Knight Center and the Hyatt Regency in downtown in order to lure top conventions and speakers - even from across the bay, in Miami Beach.
  
  That decision paid off big time last April, when President [...]
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• March 6: Support Daniela? Support the DREAM Act

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  Darn right Daniela Pelaez should be able to stay in the United States, finish her education and do the work she wants.
  
  So should every other young person in her shoes.
  
  Daniela, this year's valedictorian at North Miami Senior High School, faces deportation to' [...]
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• March 5: On Iran, Israel Can't Afford To Miss

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  Even a fly in the room would likely want to escape the tension in today's meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  
  Netanyahu is as adamant about Israel's need to attack Iran's nuclear facilities to defend itself as Obama is about' [...]
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• March 1: Remember Tallahassee Hypocrites In November

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  This is addressed to the people of Florida.
  
  That's because it's pretty obvious - judging by this year's session of the Florida Legislature - that addressing anything to their elected representatives in Tallahassee is a futile effort.
  
  Not only have many lawmakers tried to [...]
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• Tuesday, February 14: Bureaucracy In Healthy Eating Dollars Hard To Digest

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  A few days ago, first lady Michelle Obama was in South Florida celebrating the second anniversary of her "Let's Move" initiative that promotes healthy eating and lifestyles.
  
  But the way federal money meant for healthy lifestyles has been spent is giving plenty of people indigestion.
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• Wednesday February 8, 2012: Syria Crisis Needs NATO Intervention

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  Some would say that a new Cold War has developed between Russia and the West over Syria. But there's nothing remotely cold about the increasing number of casualties from the crackdowns dictator Bashar al-Assad has inflicted on the Syrian people.
  
  Last Saturday, U.S. Ambassador to [...]
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• Monday February 6: Improved Exercise & Diet the Answers In Sugar Battle

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  How does this country solve its obesity/poor health crisis? Some are saying it's time to regulate sugar, much as alcohol and tobacco are regulated.
  
  No.
  
  The problem is not that sugar isn't regulated. Sugar was around long before Americans started having' [...]
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• January 31, 2012: Human Rights Court Must Hear Haiti's Victims

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  Once again, Haiti's lack of understanding of the rule of law has let down its people and the course of justice.
  
  This time, the fault lies with Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean, who recommended that former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier be tried for corruption, but not [...]
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