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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
Stadium is a bad deal for taxpayers
BY NORMAN BRAMAN
I read with great disappointment, but not surprise, Wednesday's front-page article about the Florida Marlins' stadium's final costs being more than $2.4 billion.
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Chávez appeal wearing thin in Latin America
By FRIDA GHITIS
It's hard to imagine anyone who misses the presidency of George W. Bush more than Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. While Washington all but ignored Latin America in the last decade, Chávez managed to bolster his standing at home and beyond by mocking Bush, the man he described as producing sulfurous emissions in the manner of the Devil himself, and by warning of the threat from ''The Empire,'' his term for the United States.
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Supreme Court message: No more quotas
By JOHN YOO
In striking another blow against the use of racial quotas, the Supreme Court challenged the nation's first minority president and Congress to help lead us to a post-racial America.
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Jaw-dropping Marlins stadium deal
OUR OPINION: In sour economy and facing higher interest rates on stadium, Miami-Dade and Miami officials must not foul up
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Local perspectives
Cities in South Florida and other parts of Florida filed suit this week in Tallahassee claiming that Gov. Charlie Crist and the Legislature violated the state Constitution with a new growth-management law. Good for them.
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Miami-Dade's sex-offender law must be changed
OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade has to toss out sex-offender law, close camp
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LOW SURVIVAL RATE
Help stem the lethal toll of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer recently claimed another great American: Hall of Fame NBA coach Chuck Daly. Like many before him, his battle was brief. He was just diagnosed in February.
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MICHAEL JACKSON
An `icon'
There is no doubt that Michael Jackson was an icon. The memorial service that honored him was an affirmation of his effect on the world. He touched many lives, and his memorial touched many hearts.
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Citizens' premium rate hike is necessary
OUR OPINION: Citizens' insurance hike hard to swallow but sadly necessary
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Ban pythons
OUR OPINION: The snake poses a threat to humans as well as other animals
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Miami Beach owes public a full accounting on police shootings
Our opinion: Two fatal police shootings in Miami Beach raise questions
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Limit lawn sprinkling all year long
Our opinion: Water managers should make irrigation restrictions permanent
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Ban assault weapons
OUR OPINION: Assault weapons turn mean streets into killing fields
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South Florida must do more to battle hate
OUR OPINION: Attack on West Kendall mosque speaks to deeper problem
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Florida regulators failed in Allen Stanford case
OUR OPINION: Investigate state's role in huge investment swindle
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VERBATIM
Bring sanity to immigration laws
Below are excerpts from Report No. 63 of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force, co-chaire...
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HEALTHCARE
Reform can have something for everyone
As a registered nurse who has spent more than 25 years working at one of the largest public hospitals in th...
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Halting wildlife trade
The 2-year-old Sumter County girl killed last week by an eight-foot pet Burmese python underscores the thre...
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FOCUS ON ISRAEL
Young people reach over wall
In October 1995, I was ushering Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times into Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin'...
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THIRD WORLD
Pope sees Obama as ally on poverty
When President Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI today, there will be no right-wing Catholic demonstrators...
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HONDURAS
Stop reckless funding of Latin militaries
Latin America is enveloped in a climate of uncertainty and turmoil that I had hoped our region would never ...
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PALIN, MCNAMARA
Public officials should know when to fold 'em
Two vastly different public officials -- Robert McNamara and Sarah Palin -- shared the spotlight this past ...
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MIAMI HERALD
Wrong priorities
Giving readers trendy articles that they desire is an exercise in dysfunctional journalism. When President ...
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Health reforms must be fair
I am a physician in Miami and have been in practice for more than 29 years. The current healthcare system i...
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You can't generalize about Cuban exiles
Re Jackie Bueno Sousa's July 6 column, For many Cuban immigrants, old habits die hard: She fails to see tha...
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RUNAWAYS
Care for `lost girls'
The July 5 Speakup letter Runaways need support, shelters, not penalty begins to reflect human faces behind...
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LOW SURVIVAL RATE
Help stem the lethal toll of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer recently claimed another great American: Hall of Fame NBA coach Chuck Daly. Like many bef...
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MICHAEL JACKSON
An `icon'
There is no doubt that Michael Jackson was an icon. The memorial service that honored him was an affirmatio...
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Church misled us
Re the June 28 story Loose rules doomed church: I have been a member of St. Stephen`s Episcopal Church in C...
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The education of Sonia Sotomayor
The first time she walked into my office in Princeton University's Dickinson Hall, Sonia Sotomayor was hold...
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Ouster of Zelaya was a legal act
Honduras, the tiny Central American nation, had a change of leaders on June 28. The country's military arre...
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The beginning of Palin's end in politics
Sarah Palin's career as governor of Alaska is over. So is her barely begun career as a serious presidential...
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Obama's strategic blind spot
''Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?'' During the bi...
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To achieve green goals we must define green jobs
Florida's businesses and workforce are weathering one of the toughest economic storms in decades. However, ...
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The U.S. in Iraq: an audit of the pain
Tuesday, the United States ''stood down'' in Iraq, finalizing the pullout of 140,000 troops from Iraqi citi...
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Pakistan seems ready to crack down on Taliban
Has the Pakistani government, after years of vacillation, finally gotten serious about eliminating the Tali...
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Please don't paint stadium seats orange
The site is finally being cleared for a new Marlins baseball stadium, now estimated to cost $634 million. D...
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Judges and justice should not be for sale
If Sonia Sotomayor becomes the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court, she'll take a seat among colleagues w...
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Camping? Don't forget to bring your gun
Like many other Americans, every time I take my family to a national park I find myself thinking: Wow! If I...
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U.S. prisons even tougher than Gitmo
President Obama's promise to shut down the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba has hit a snag be...
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Crist launches yet another thrilling quest
Ah, Charlie, we hardly knew ye. The lad was but a bronze blur, streaking across the bright Tallahassee firm...
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`Give the poor padre a break'
The bad news for the Roman Catholic Church: Father Alberto Cutié, the widely popular priest at St. F...
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Miami-Dade commissioners driven to spend
When you're a Miami-Dade commissioner, danger lurks at every ribbon-cutting. Just ask Jose ''Pepe'' Diaz. H...
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What was he thinking, and what with?
I have a proposal. Next time some politician goes before the cameras with his figurative pants down around ...
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MICHAEL JACKSON
Scorned, admired -- and mourned
Sometimes, death is a blindside hit. When it comes at the end of a long life as it did last week for 86-yea...
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'Thriller' was greatest triumph, greatest tragedy
I got to interview Michael Jackson only once, at the family home in Encino, Calif. This was on the occasion...
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GOP blind to its race problem
The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of Lyndon Johnson's pen. If that is an exaggeration, it is...
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MINORITIES
The Right is not being persecuted
A reader wants to know why I didn't mention what David Letterman said. John, from Monroe, Wash., wrote in r...
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The ugly consequences of open hatred
''Them Jews aren't going to let [President Obama] talk to me.'' -- the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. ''I hate gay p...
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SCREEN GEMS
The week ahead in movies and TV
BIG SCREEN The Hangover (R): May is too early to proclaim any movie the funniest of the year, but for sheer...
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AFGHANISTAN
'Bloody' mission goes awry
It may seem a little paradoxical for a journalist to say, but I reallllly hope Robert Gates was lying to us...
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
A lot of talk, too little clarity
You know what they say about monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare. My question is, if you sat an infinite n...
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TV NEWS
NBC renews 'Southland' and Amy Poehler, adds six shows
NBC unveiled a good chunk of its fall programming Monday, announcing six new series and renewing a couple o...
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SECOND AMENDMENT
Why can't students say 'guns' in school?
Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried that the government is out to snatch their constitu...
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