Budget cuts: Where the hurt is

Miami-Dade Commission budget cuts are affecting more than the bottom line.

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New series explores 50 years of events that bound U.S., Cuba

From the day she landed on one of the Freedom Flights as an excited, frightened 7-year-old, Luisa Yanez has been fascinated by the massive U.S. airlift that brought her and 265,000 other Cubans to the United States four decades ago.

NORTHWESTERN HIGH GRADUATION

Mom attends killed son's Northwestern High graduation

A young victim's mother made the difficult decision to attend a graduation ceremony in his place.

OVERTOWN

Overtown grandmother haunted by loved one's violent death

A grandmother who thought she'd always live in her neighborhood has lost two loved ones and now just hopes to get out.

VIOLENCE CLAIMING YOUNG BLACKS

Bound in grief as violence continues

It's a club nobody wants to be part of: parents of killed children who come together to comfort one another and try to end the cycle of senseless violence.

Four decades later, men recall King's last campaign

Martin Luther King's final campaign in Memphis was a march into a violent maelstrom of hatred and righteous defiance. Share your thoughts below on our coverage of the anniversary of the assassination and see what other readers are saying.

Glimpses of 2007

The Miami Herald's photographers share a trove of images that they find memorable and personally remarkable.

Moore gives the accused little say in `Sicko'

In many respects, Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko, is like a trial for those who oversee healthcare in the United States. The industry -- doctors, drug makers, hospitals, insurers -- is charged with greed and putting personal interests above patients'. Moore heard from thousands of people who had maddening and heartbreaking brushes with this system.

HEALTHCARE

Grieve for the U.S. health system

It isn't surprising that critics of Michael Moore's Sicko are desperate to quibble with his finer points. After all, denial is the first stage of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross's model of dealing with grief, and the tragedy before us is, of course, the agonizing death of an inadequate medical system.

We should all have an ex like this one

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.

Mayor Diaz discusses 'House of Lies: Miami's Crisis'

City of Miami Mayor Manny Diaz and a few members of his staff met with the editorial board, editors and reporters at The Miami Herald on Tuesday to discuss the "House of Lies: Miami's Crisis'' articles that appeared on Sunday, June 3.

At Harvard, a move to test how well students are learning

The federal government wants to start tracking how well the nation's colleges teach. This could spur some of the biggest changes campuses have seen in decades -- and perhaps threaten the very idea of a liberal education.