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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Miami Beach must get it right this time
OUR OPINION: Urban Beach Weekend revelers return amid unanswered questions in 2011 police shooting
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Military veterans can’t keep waiting
OUR OPINION: VA disability backlogs unacceptable
Other Views
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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Boy Scouts’ ‘life lesson’ on hypocrisy
BY ESTON MELTON III
Phone (305) 364-0020 and you'll hear this recording: "You have reached the South Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America, and Learning for Life."
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MIDDLE EAST
Frida Ghitis: Iran’s democracy charade
BY FRIDA GHITIS
Keep an eye on Iran over the coming weeks. The country is in the process of shedding the final vestiges of democracy as it heads to a new presidential election on June 14. It is a sad unraveling of an experiment that began more than 30 years ago.
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CHILDREN & EDUCATION
Lessons from Finland can help our children
BY PETER A. GORSKI
How well prepared are our children to keep our nation secure and prosperous for another generation? I’m concerned. But don’t take my word. Just check what The Miami Herald has reported:
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
DCF’s fatal flaws
OUR OPINION: Child-welfare agency underplays chance of risk, and children suffer
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
South Florida regaining lost ground
OUR OPINION: Overall, the state’s budget moves in right direction
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Stopping Medicare fraud
OUR OPINION: Tougher scrutiny by frontline administrators required
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Miami-Dade water fee must increase for health’s sake
OUR OPINION: Overdue upgrades to sewer, water system costly but necessary
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Dressed to kill
OUR OPINION: Higher safety standards needed for garment workers in poor countries
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Administration in disarray
OUR OPINION: President must show more leadership and decisiveness
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IN MY OPINION
Glenn Garvin: Welcome to ‘unwelcome’ speech on campus
I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Beng...
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APPAREL INDUSTRY
On Asian sweatshops Americans share blame
Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I’m...
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Larger type, please
I am always proud of the Silver Knight nominees from Miami-Dade County. When the winners are printed in The...
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Racist statement
Mary Sanchez’s May 14 Other Views column, Scholars claim Hispanics are intellectually inferior, says...
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Hasten executions
Leonard Pitts seems to think in his May 19 column, On death penalty, wrongly accused are victims, too, that...
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Doctors’ secret PIN
While Medicare regulations are a tangle of daunting legalese, the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (C...
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Lost at sea
Any writeup on the passing of Capt. Mike Burke that omits mention of the Fantome, the Windjammer schooner l...
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The readers’ forum
‘First 48’ exploits victims of crime
Thank you for your recent coverage of the city of Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa’s decision not to ...
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Spiritual or religious?
Martin Slater’s May 17 letter, Changing beliefs, responding to Myriam Marquez’s May 12 column...
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President’s ‘scandals’ could actually hurt Republicans
Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three ma...
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The White House to-do list
When White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told his colleagues last week to spend no more than 10 perc...
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The Obamas overdo tough love for black grads
In recent commencement addresses to black college graduates, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ...
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Tornadoes sound like eerie silence — then evil
Does a killer tornado really sound like a freight train?
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Networks serving up schlock
Networks are generally leery of shows that are set in the past.
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Kudos to those who graduated in four years
For the college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor’s degree long after graduation ...
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: IRS went after small fry, but let the big ones get away
“Please provide copies of all your current web pages, including your blog posts. Please provide copi...
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Carl Hiaasen: Once again, we’re the poster child for scandal
Anyone who thinks the healthcare apparatus in this country doesn’t need radical liposuction should ...
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IN MY OPINION
Carl Hiaasen: It’s too easy to become a terrorist
Authorities say that the two brothers who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon were probably “self-r...
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: Rubio comes up short on gun control
Marco Rubio showed his true yellow colors last week, joining 45 other cowards to defeat Senate legislation ...
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STADIUM RENOVATION
Carl Hiaasen: Good news and bad on Dolphins stadium deal
Incredible as it seems, Miami-Dade voters might actually be allowed to decide whether or not tax dollars ar...
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Carl Hiaasen | In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: NRA’s task is to frighten, sell more guns
The National Rifle Association wants to give me a “heavy-duty” duffel bag.
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: On death penalty, wrongly accused are victims, too
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.
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Leonard Pitts: On guns and the Great American Panic Machine
It should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.
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In My Opinion
Pennsylvania woman ran to Key West — where else?
Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West.
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In My opinion
Leonard Pitts: Texas case exposes racial bias in death penalty for Duane Buck
If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black.
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In My Opinion
Myriam Marquez: Hope for Cuba one prayer at a time
In her mind’s eye, Elsa Morejón looks from Miami at her beloved island and worries that what ai...
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In My Opinion
‘El Super’ explains Cuban exiles’ bittersweet adventure
It was born in the gritty urban realism of exile, circa 1970s. El Super, a low-budget production by Cuban e...
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Myriam Marquez | In My Opinion
Myriam Marquez: Beyoncé and Jay-Z in Havana another calibrated Cuba plot
Beyoncé and Jay-Z trotted around their mothers in Havana for the couple’s fifth anniversary, po...
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In My Opinion
Myriam Marquez: Yoani Sánchez faces as many questions as explanations from exiles
Forty questions in 80 days.
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In My Opinion
Juan Clark opened my eyes to the ‘why’
It was an evening class in Kendall that opened my weary mind after a day’s work to why societies are...
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In My Opinion
Romney’s guilt-free pass to Independents
TAMPA — Tin Man didn’t morph into a cuddly teddy bear at his Republican National Coronation, ...
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In My Opinion
Write-in ploy cheats the voters
The state attorney is one of those countywide positions thats high profile and in the crosshairs of t...
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IN MY OPINION
Glenn Garvin: Welcome to ‘unwelcome’ speech on campus
I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Beng...
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IN MY OPINION
Murder? Not if you just kill a baby
Nearly a quarter-century has passed since The Los Angeles Times published a piece by the late David Shaw, t...
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IN MY OPINION
Let Pollard finish his sentence
In his book The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten, struggling to define the concept of “chutzpah” ...
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IN MY OPINION
Wars end, but the bills last forever
The past is never dead, as William Faulkner might have written if he were analyzing the federal budget, it...
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IN MY OPINION
A license to kill — competition
It’s soooooo tempting to start this column with a joke about the first class-action lawsuit on beha...
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Screen gems
The week ahead at the movies and on TV
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