http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Issues & Ideas 60 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:47:20 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791413.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791413.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Seven years ago, a Swiss art fair came to Miami Beach, and with it came the international art world. Connoisseurs, collectors, spectators and glitterati filled the Convention Center to gaze at and (in the case of some, at least) buy the art that Art Basel Miami Beach brought with it. The excitement spilled over into the streets of the Design District, to the shipping containers-turned-exhibition spaces over by the beach, to the hotels that opened their rooms to become instant mini-galleries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791423.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791423.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:01 EST A lmost everywhere that Miami Herald reporter Frances Robles and photographer John VanBeekum traveled along the southwest border with Mexico, they found the same ghost-town feel in what once were crowded villages built mostly on the illegal immigration trade. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791409.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791409.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST At one level, it sounds like a very bad joke. In September, a safe-haven law took effect in the state of Nebraska allowing parents to leave their children at hospitals without fear of prosecution. This, as a means of saving the lives of unwanted newborns who would otherwise be left in garbage heaps and motel rooms or simply murdered outright. Nebraska was the last state in the union to pass such a law and unlike the other 49 states, it did not limit the ages of children that could be legally abandoned... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791431.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791431.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Fire and ire. That's what many opinion columnists in The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald inspire. When I wrote to slap the hand of El Nuevo's Adolfo Rivero Caro for being irresponsible with facts, many of you responded with passion about the freedom of op-ed columnists in both papers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791422.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791422.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When Barack Obama meets Tuesday in Philadelphia with governors of both parties, an added dimension of the credit crisis and financial meltdown will come into focus. We have heard a lot about the collapse of housing prices, the threatened or actual bankruptcy of many banks and the rise in unemployment. Individuals, families and firms of all sizes have been clobbered by these events. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791407.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/791407.html Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:01 EST The fight for Georgia's U.S. Senate seat is a struggle for much more. For Democrats, the Tuesday runoff could give them their 59th seat in the next Senate. And if Democrat Al Franken beats GOP incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's recount, which will continue into December, Democrats would reach the magic number of 60 Senate seats -- the number required under Senate rules to shut off debate and force a vote. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782551.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782551.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST On a cold January morning in 2001, Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who was then the new secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was headed to his office in his limo when he saw some homeless people huddled on the vents of the steam tunnels that heat federal buildings. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782541.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST We should be ashamed of how poorly we have treated President George W. Bush. That, believe it or not, is the thesis of a bizarre opinion published the day after the election in The Wall Street Journal by one Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, described as an investigative reporter, a lawyer and a former intern for, of all people, John Kerry. It's one of two rather eye-opening Journal pieces, actually; the second, following just days later, was by a former presidential aide named Jim Towey. Under the headline... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782559.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782559.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST When President Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20, he will confront tough choices about how best to allocate his government's precious economic and diplomatic resources to pursue the legitimate interests of the United States in the world. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782549.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/782549.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:01 EST If you're like most Americans, you probably weren't dabbing tears from your eyes while listening to the woeful pleas of Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771757.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771757.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Mauricio Claver-Carone is a director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC (www.uscubapac.com), was an attorney with the Department of the Treasury, and has served on the full-time faculty of The Catholic University of America's law school. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771755.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771755.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Marián Prío, a reader from Key Biscayne, was upset. She had just read a column in El Nuevo Herald, the newspaper of record for the substantial segment of South Florida that is Spanish dominant. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771756.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Camila Ruiz Gallardo is director of government relations for the Cuban American National Foundation. The word ''change'' seems to spark a range of diverse emotions in South Florida. For some, the word represents hope, an opportunity to adjust course with the goal of achieving a better outcome. For others, it evokes alarm, uncertainty, a rejection of past efforts. Merriam-Webster doesn't offer much help in its own definitions, which include: to alter as well as: to transform. So you can appreciate... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771175.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771175.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Joe Oglesby, editorial page editor of The Miami Herald, asked the question below of Vernon Jordan, former president of the National Urban League and a close advisor to former President Bill Clinton. Jordan currently is senior managing director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, an investment banking firm whose latest book is Make It Plain: Stand Up and Speaking Out (2008: Perseus Publishing; $24.95): http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771192.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771192.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Ronnie Greene, The Miami Herald's Urban Affairs Editor, is the author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town (2008: HarperCollins/Amistad, $24.95). He will appear at the Book Fair on a panel with Dr. Jerry B. Brown, co-author of Freedom from Mid-East Oil (2007: World Business Academy, $24.95), to whom he posed this question: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771201.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Bridget Carey, a reporter on The Herald's business staff, writes about technology and reviews a new gadget every Tuesday in her 60-second video reviews. She also authors the tech blog, Cache & Carey, and Poked, a blog about social networking etiquette for the working world. She asked this of Steve Greenberg, author of Gadget Nation: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention (2008: Sterling Publishing, $19.95): http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771204.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771204.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST William McGee, a copy editor at The Miami Herald, asked this question of Sister Souljah, the activist and hip hop-generation recording artist, film producer and author whose latest book is Midnight (2008: Atria, $26.96): http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771250.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Jeff Kleinman is copy desk chief of The Miami Herald and writes about family issues at MomsMiami.com. He asked the following question of Alan Berger and David Patterson, authors of Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock (2008: Paragon House, $19.95): http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771176.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771176.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Elinor Brecher, The Miami Herald's obituary writer, is the author of Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors (Dutton, 1994). She asked this of Mildred Nitzberg, who with Marilyn Segal wrote I Chose Life (2008: AuthorHouse, $24.99). This was excerpted from a longer reply: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771199.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues//story/771199.html Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:01 EST Marjie Lambert, The Miami Herald's assistant travel editor, has traveled to all 50 states and 16 countries. She asked this of Peter Greenberg, who wrote Don't Go There! The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World (2009: Rodale Press, $17.95):