MiamiHerald.com: Ana Menendez http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Ana Menendez http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Ana Menendez 60 Sun, 11 May 2008 04:46:55 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Fight, bow -- if only politics were like judo http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/528779.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/528779.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT All sports aim at mastery over an opponent, a defining fact that makes it difficult to watch Team USA put Cuba in a chokehold and not see 50 years of geopolitics twist across mat No. 1. In UDB fight, Alvarez proved powerless http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/523764.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/523764.html Wed, 07 May 2008 03:01 EDT In the end, the mayor was not strong enough. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez fought hard to expand his powers, and voters finally granted him his wish last year. As strong mayor, Alvarez now enjoys greater authority over the county's bureaucracy. But he's so far proved no match for the real power structure: the forces of development. Immigration being unfair to Haitians http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/520300.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/520300.html Sun, 04 May 2008 03:01 EDT Wilbert Benoit, father of two, taken away on a dark morning. Marie Thelusma arrested in front of her baby boy. Francieuse Lafortune, new mother, locked up while she was still breast-feeding. Fabienne Josil, five weeks pregnant, dragged away after fainting. Drive west shows insanity of UDB vote http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/514847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/514847.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Monday at 5:01 p.m., I did what 1.7 million people in South Florida do every weekday: I got in my car downtown and drove to the suburbs. Government making costly gamble on terrorism case http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/511419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/511419.html Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Prosecutors in the case against the Liberty City men accused of plotting terrorism are going for broke: a third trial for the bumbling jihadists. Walk, ride, drive? What's fastest way? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/506010.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/506010.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Drive around downtown Miami long enough and one day you'll be forced to consider the eternal time-space riddle: Would it have been faster to walk? Garcia reaping hysteria he helped cultivate http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/494023.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/494023.html Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Fidel Castro is out of power and brother Raúl is preoccupied with Cuba's delicate transition, but in Miami, island politics can still resonate as if it were 1992. Common ground on Cuba elusive http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/488212.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/488212.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT It's too early to know what lasting effect Raúl Castro's rise to power will have on Cubans. But in Miami, Fidel's farewell has already reinvigorated a vital component of the local economy: the Cuba-conference industry. Poor need all the friends they can get, including FIU center http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/484868.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/484868.html Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT The rich and well-connected always have friends to spare. The poor, the marginalized and the unpopular have the Labor Center at Florida International University. Why Rubio's equity loan is our business http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/479366.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/ana_menendez/story/479366.html Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Some people go to the supermarket and forget to buy milk. State House Speaker Marco Rubio gets a $135,000 equity loan and forgets to disclose it. So it goes: Memory is an untrustworthy friend.