MiamiHerald.com: Myriam Marquez

Newt, Mitt and our next ambassador to the moon

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:52 EST

To paraphrase Jackie Gleason’s legendary TV character Ralph Kramden, “To the moon, Newt!”

‘Run for Roots’ moves the conversation on Cuba fast forward

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:41 EST

Carmen Pelaez, a playwright and actress who grew up in Miami and made a name for herself nationally with her one-woman show, Rum and Coke, was running around New York, training for a marathon, when she experienced The Moment.

On education, money counts

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:02 EST

Money can’t buy you love, and maybe it can’t buy you happiness, but can it buy a top-notch education?

Latest budget fight in Miami-Dade a tragic comedy of political manipulation

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:26 EST

There were moments of deep sadness in the midst of raw political maneuvering. The families of two slain officers were begging for commissioners to back the police union and deliver a budget that wouldn’t hurt those officers still living — as if a 5 percent contribution from their salary to the healthcare fund would be a travesty compared to the alterative, layoffs.

Santa’s gifts for South Florida’s movers and shakers

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:16 EST

This year Santa delivered special gifts to all the good boys and girls in South Florida, but it almost didn’t happen. At the height of production, Santa’s elves disappeared, muttering something about poor pay and a busted pension at a melting North Pole.

The art of eating our own

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:49 EST

Ask Pepe Croqueta — Miami’s Everyman — about some guy named Jorge Perez donating $35 million in cash and art to a public museum that will bear Perez’s name, and Pepe will say, “But this guy is a Perez cualquiera,” a popular Cuban saying when one has a common surname.