Bob Barr, Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney could determine the next president.
The collapse of Wall Street and the freeze of credit markets can be traced to one unlikely culprit: Cindy Crawford. I'm sure she didn't mean to cripple the economy. Most supermodels avoid meddling in global monetary markets, and it's unlikely that Cindy realized how much influence she commanded.
Mike Jackson is CEO of AutoNation, the nation's largest automotive retailer. It is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. Q. What do you think about the bailout?
Barry Johnson is president/CEO of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, South Florida's largest business organization. Q. How are your members being impacted by the current economic crisis?
Bill Diggs is president/ CEO of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce, the area's historically black chamber. Q: What do you think about this bailout?
The first time, Troy Davis came within 24 hours of death. The second time, he came within two. Last year, it was a Georgia clemency board that stepped in to block his execution. Last month, it was the Supreme Court. Davis, the 39-year-old convicted killer of Mark MacPhail, a Savannah, Ga., police officer, was granted a stay to allow the court to consider whether to hear his appeal for a new trial. A decision is expected on Monday.
BY EDWARD SCHUMACHER-MATOS ombudsman@MiamiHerald.com Since John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate five weeks ago, many readers who support them complain that The Miami Herald, like ''the media'' in general, have treated Palin unfairly.
Basil Bernard is President of Apricot Office Supplies and Office Furniture USA South Florida, a Miami Gardens-based business that began in 1986. The company has 25 employees in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
hile watching the leadership figures of both parties, the secretary of the treasury and the president all struggling to explain to us why we needed the bailout package, the famous line from Cool Hand Luke came to mind: What we have here is a failure to communicate.
The vice presidential debate is set for next Thursday, and millions of voters will be watching to see if moderator Gwen Ifill of PBS behaves herself.
The sound of hammers and drills fills one side of The Miami Herald newsroom these days as work finishes up on a new video studio that will produce everything from sports programs to cooking shows for the website.
John McCain and Barack Obama are about as far apart as they can be on how they would get the economy back on track.
In a high-pressure sport like football, where there is no sin worse than failure, depression is treated as if it doesn't exist.
Memo to the next president: There's an old fable I'm sure you know. It's usually credited to Aesop, and the version I found online at storyarts.org, goes like this:
Of course, we all have questions for Sarah Palin: Does she actually think living across the Bering Strait from Russia constitutes foreign policy expertise? Does she really take the parable of Adam and Eve as literal truth? How, exactly, does one field dress a moose? And why would one want to?
Presidential campaigns talk a lot about how 'Washington insiders' are an obstacle to change, but the real obstacle to change is the system itself -- a complex one that requires the experience of such insiders.
A young victim's mother made the difficult decision to attend a graduation ceremony in his place.
A grandmother who thought she'd always live in her neighborhood has lost two loved ones and now just hopes to get out.
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.
One of the most treacherous stories for The Miami Herald to cover is Israel, not because of the wars and terrorism there, but because of the passions among readers here.
