MiamiHerald.com: Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen: IRS went after small fry, but let the big ones get away

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:08 EDT

“Please provide copies of all your current web pages, including your blog posts. Please provide copies of all your newsletters, bulletins, flyers or any other media or literature you have disseminated to your members or others. Please provide copies of stories and articles that have been published about you.”

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

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:52 EDT

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

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

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00 EDT

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

Carl Hiaasen: Legislature approves ethics reform — no joke!

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:11 EDT

Promise not to laugh?

Carl Hiaasen: Rubio comes up short on gun control

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:15 EDT

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.

Carl Hiaasen: Good news and bad on Dolphins stadium deal

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:41 EDT

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.

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

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:02 EDT

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

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

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:57 EDT

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

Another scandal in Tallahassee? You bet!

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:56 EDT

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

Carl Hiaasen: This Florida citizen outraged by Citizens insurance

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:57 EST

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.

Nude face-eating cannibal? Must be Miami

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:30 EDT

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

Stadium plan a 'bifurcated rip-off'

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:29 EST

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

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:01 EDT

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.