The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Get to the bottom of it

OUR OPINION: Broward Medical Examiner’s Office a mess

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Gathering storm over insurance bill

OUR OPINION: Don’t let unregulated insurers into Florida

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Another loony ‘jobs’ bill

OUR OPINION: Out-of-state Internet companies should collect Florida sales tax but why a “freebie...

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Not so fast

OUR OPINION: Miami Beach needs to do its due diligence before approving tow-company increase

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Indecision roulette

OUR OPINION: Future of gambling in the Sunshine State remains unsettled

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Florida’s simpleton rankings

OUR OPINION: New state rankings of school districts do nothing to promote reform

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Is there a hero in the House?

OUR OPINION: Gov. Scott, state Senate need missing House support to crack down on bad ALFs

HUMAN RIGHTS

Dictators must be held accountable

Two men whose brutal dictatorships ended in the 1980s are in the news because courts in the countries they ...

MITT ROMNEY

Mitt Romney and the power of losing

Mitt Romney’s recent losses to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota revealed a truism t...

BIRTH CONTROL

It’s 2012, and we’re still arguing about birth control

Oh, dear, what is that baying? It sounds like the religious right has let slip the dogs of culture war.

CASINOS VS. HIGH TECH

No casinos for now, what then?

It may be more of a suspension than surrender, but at least for now the proposal for mega casinos in Florid...

BP OIL SPILL

Don’t let BP fines paid for spill disappear into federal black hole

STAND YOUR GROUND

What we lose when we ‘stand our ground’

On March 18, 2010, Quentin Rashad Wyche and Kendall Berry, two FIU football players, argued about a girl. B...

AIDS

Progress in ending AIDS, TB, malaria but now funding is threatened

Poverty and disease leave little to celebrate, but an important milestone in the new millennium just passed...

Focus on health

Upon learning that Jackson Memorial South would no longer allow the yoga/exercise class to take place in th...

The death knell

Re the Feb. 11 article, Power Shifting: Changing boundaries in South Florida: The U.S. democratic form of g...

Another Ponzi scheme?

Once again, our government shows this country how the large financial institutions can get away with fraud ...

Redesign needed

Re the Feb. 11 article, New Designs Make A Grand Entrance: The Arquitectonica ugly monstrosity should be re...

History repeats

Re the Feb. 12 editorial, Rescuing American Airlines: Those who have lived and worked in South Florida over...

The readers’ forum

American’s bankruptcy hurts middle class

In its Dec. 4 editorial, Up in the air, The Miami Herald said that American Airlines will restructure and ...

Inspiring views

Kudos to The Miami Herald for an inspiring and meaningful series of opinion pages from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2. T...

Santorum, Republicans in Congress want to replay Cold War in Latin America

Rick Santorum’s recent electoral victories aren’t welcome news in most of Latin America. Nor ...

Stop Super Pacs with a fair-elections amendment

The 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case is fast becoming as explosive as Plessy v. Fer...

Gay-marriage ruling a memo to Justice Kennedy

What’s in a name? In 2008, supporters of a state ballot measure convinced a majority of California ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, and all that

The first Queen Elizabeth was standing under an English oak tree when she learned that she had become queen.

Federal ban on snakes lacks bite

Recently, a powerful lobby spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a bill that would have enhanced...

Military preparedness does not come cheap

Here’s something for critics of the country’s defense budget to ponder: After I was confirmed...

For Planned Parenthood, backlash pays off

Last spring, Cecile Richards’s BlackBerry buzzed with an unexpected text message. It was from her so...

Dream candidate? Only for Democrats

If you’re a Democrat, here’s what you’re thinking two days before the Florida’s...

Those big snakes are here to stay

Now that federal regulators have outlawed the importation of humongous, gator-eating pythons, all Floridian...

Haiti: Not trendy, not chic, just real news

Mitt wins … unless he blows it

Florida is being overrun by pundits and pollsters in advance of the upcoming Republican presidential primary.

Why some lawmakers are in panic

An absolutely true news item: Having passed a law allowing gun owners to bring their weapons inside the st...

Only in Miami: Indicted, but on the payroll

More proof that Miami is the worst-run city in America:

In My Opinion

Taxpayers harpooned on stadium

The new Miami Marlins stadium is rising to completion in Little Havana, and rising with it is the blood pr...

In my opinion

Obama’s hypocrisy on super PACs out of necessity

One of the worries we have obviously in the next campaign is that there are so many of these so-called sup...

In my opinion

Tim Tebow’s prayers on field: the personal versus public consumption

Really? Seriously?

And the winners are .  .  .

In a recent column, I announced a giveaway of 50 copies of The New Crow by Michelle Alexander. Twelve thou...

In my opinion

Don Cornelius created show that helped black kids come of age

In my opinion

Looking for morning in America

In my opinion

Rep. Giffords’ departure a blow to democracy

In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.

In my opinion

Practicing the politics of racial resentment

I got my first job when I was 12. The deacons at my church paid me $2 a week to keep it swept and mopped.

In My Opinion

Newt, Mitt and our next ambassador to the moon

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

In My Opinion

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

Carmen Pelaez, a playwright and actress who grew up in Miami and made a name for herself nationally with he...

In My Opinion

On education, money counts

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

In My Opinion

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

There were moments of deep sadness in the midst of raw political maneuvering. The families of two slain off...

In My Opinion

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

This year Santa delivered special gifts to all the good boys and girls in South Florida, but it almost didn...

In My Opinion

The art of eating our own

Ask Pepe Croqueta — Miami’s Everyman — about some guy named Jorge Perez donating $35 m...

‘ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN’

The profound lies of Deep Throat

Kids say the darndest things. Speaking to a college journalism class last week, I learned the students had ...

In my opinion

Stop bothering the Fed, you peasant taxpayers!

Breaking news: When it came to the collapse of the bubble that touched off the 2008 meltdown of the U.S. ec...

In my opinion

Does the GOP really want a return to the buggy-whip economy?

George Wallace, when he made a third-party run for the presidency in 1968, acidly observed that there wasn&...

Correction

A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation “funded a study on J...

In my opinion

Great moments in history? Not so much

I knew 2011 was going to be one of those years when I wrote a column saying that $80 billion of proposed fe...

In my opinion

In war on drugs, dissent ‘unpatriotic’

I owe Kyle Vogt an apology. A former military policeman, he’s now a member of a group called Law Enf...

Glenn Garvin

Giving bullies a veto on the First Amendment

Imagine five Jewish kids go to school one day wearing their yarmulkes. The school’s numerous skinhead ...