So what if it's a dive? Miami must honor deal

In Miami, felines aren't the only things with nine lives.

Barely a week ago, the legendary Jimbo's Place, on a tiny corner of Virginia Key, dodged a bullet for the umpteenth time in nearly 50 years.

Ex-judge an example of how to ruin a life

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

It appears that Philip Davis, the former Miami-Dade circuit judge who channeled Marlon Brando by tearily proclaiming ``I coulda been somebody!'' during the 1993 bribery trial in which he was later acquitted, cried gator tears.

Jobs, shelter, safety -- then environment

Marvin Dunn may be the best thing to happen to environmentalism in South Florida since it became as trendy to care about carbon emissions and ozone as it is for women to carry tiny dogs in Prada purses and men to wear T-shirts from Baby Gap.

Michael Brewer did right thing: He snitched

I don't know Michael Brewer, but I can tell you that he is an upstanding kid because even though fearful, he did the right thing.

Old film can shed light on Miami tragedy

If he hasn't heard it before, Damon Darling should be told the name Roemello Skuggs, and he should be forced to repeat it every day for the duration of his coming prison sentence.

`Keepin' it real' gets some young men into trouble

When Jeffrey Swain, a retired attorney and educator, walked into the Lauderhill Mall Branch Library Monday night, he felt burdened, having just heard the news that a 16-year-old Chicago boy had been beaten to death earlier that day by rival gang factions after the boy innocently strayed into the middle of their fight.

Don't reserve outrage for animal killings

I knew it would happen.

When police in North Miami-Dade announced Wednesday their second arrest in two recent horse butcherings, the outrage over the gruesome killings came to a boil.

Basic logic could have prevented real estate mess

Yanira Doyle could easily be a prophetic figure in the South Florida real estate market, and all because she didn't let her eyes get bigger than her stomach.

What is wrong with the word Negro? When it comes to words, context is everything

Immediately following the publication last week of a Miami Herald article on a racial flap in a Broward County Public Schools document, I received an angry, anonymous phone call from a man who wanted to know ``why.''

Talking to kids good, but mind your words

Language experts say that most children build the foundation for their vocabularies between birth and age 3, as a result of parents talking to and with them.

Church robbery could become turning point

Finish this sentence with me: You'd have to be pretty brazen in order to ...

If you can't think of anything, try this: enter a church, point a gun at a meeting of church employees and volunteers, and rob them inside their sanctuary. Monday night, that's exactly what happened to a group at Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Liberty City, where the armed robber snatched wallets, cash, cellphones, and even the senior pastor's car.

Promoter's death a tale of poor reaction

It would be easy to write off the murder last week of Samuel Ferguson, fatally shot by unknown assailants on Florida's Turnpike near Griffin Road, as just another sad verse in a rap song.

OPINION | JAMES BURNETT

It took some time, but kids are using Liberty Square library

One of the most beautiful things I've seen recently was a string of books strewn like bread crumbs across the floors of a nondescript building on Miami's northwest side.