Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Miami Marine Stadium rehab deserves nod from city commission

The future of the Miami Marine Stadium should be decided Thursday by the City Commission. The historic 1963...

Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Do-nothing Congress

OUR OPINION: Paralysis on Capitol Hill hurts American public

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Miami talks tech

OUR OPINION: Community can become a respected hub for innovation

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A 21st-century ride

OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade commissioners should put customer service ahead of taxi monopolies

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Miami’s Atlantis, interrupted

SCANDALS: THROUGH THE EYES OF JIM MORIN

Cartoonist Jim Morin’s view on government indiscretions as showcased in his work over the years.

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FAMU marching band returns with pledge of zero tolerance for hazing

OUR OPINION: FAMU is implementing stringent policy changes to prevent hazing

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On immigration, a patriotic vision

OUR OPINION: Senate passage lives up to nation’s commitment

POLITICAL DEBATE

The slavery-abortion analogy

On Tuesday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee traveled to Texas, where the debate over an extremely restri...

TRAFFIC

Red-light cameras save lives

LATIN AMERICA

In Latin America, surprising progress on crime

In My Opinion

Snowden’s only principled choice: Come home

Mohandas Gandhi went to Yeravda Central Prison.

JACKSON HEALTH TRUST

Jackson bond issue will be a tough sell

ELIOT SPITZER

Eliot Spitzer’s turn to see redemption

And now for something completely the same: another disgraced official staging a comeback. Eliot Spitzer, th...

HIGHER LEARNING

The case against a ‘free’ education

What a hornet’s nest. I wrote that it seemed cynical for Chilean university students, adults who pre...

SURVEILLANCE

We can handle the truth about surveillance

Egypt’s revolution

Instead of celebrating the triumph of a liberal and progressive movement in Egypt, the Obama administration...

Sever racetrack mandate

Re the July 7 article Schemes abound at pari-mutuels: There is a solution for the dilemma at the dog tracks...

Privileged to roam unscathed

LeVar Burton recently explained how he comports himself when approached or stopped by police, and it is qu...

Obey the laws

Letter writer Julian Valencia states that bicyclists have a legal right to take up a lane on the roadways. ...

Abortion debate shows our crudeness

I don’t believe Kathleen Parker has ever let me down with her columns. Her work on the meteoric asce...

MDX out of control

Kudos to state Rep. Jeannette Nuñez for her June 30 letter, MDX is overstepping its boundaries. MDX ha...

The readers’ forum

Two approaches

How democracy works: In Egypt, hold an election. After 13 months of a bad president, revolt and throw him o...

Desalinization concerns

You can’t beat a Chamber of Commerce for creating rosy scenarios. Julio Fuentes explained how desali...

Broken systems + bad ideas = lame recovery

Five years after the financial meltdown, the global economic recovery is hardly worthy of the name. The Int...

Welcome to Venezuela, Señor Snowden

Dear Mr. Snowden,

Kudos to judge who owns DUI mistake

There’s this saying: Sometimes it’s not what you do, it’s what you do after.

Young white women, killing themselves by tanning

Despite the hoopla over dysfunction in Washington, the government can still do useful things. To prove it, ...

Why does Washington still think it can control what happens in Egypt?

Here we go again. It has been barely a week since the Egyptian military removed Mohammed Morsi from power, ...

Detroit’s Greek tragedy

Liberal economists have a ready response to conservatives who fret that U.S. debt might spiral out of contr...

Snowden’s links to WikiLeaks and journalists raise questions

Did Edward Snowden decide on his own to seek out journalists and then a job at Booz Allen Hamilton’s...

Rick Perry’s plan

So, summing up, here’s what we know: Gov. Rick Perry’s not running for governor again and he...

In My Opinion

State aimed too high in Zimmerman prosecution

The prosecutors of George Zimmerman are taking a drubbing in the media, as well as in the courtroom.

In My Opinion

Carl Hiaasen: Memo on IRS scandal

(Emergency revisions to conference-planning guidelines for the Internal Revenue Service).

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...

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 ...

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...

In my opinion

Carl Hiaasen: Legislature approves ethics reform — no joke!

Promise not to laugh?

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 ...

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...

In My Opinion

Snowden’s only principled choice: Come home

Mohandas Gandhi went to Yeravda Central Prison.

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: a universal explanation for religious atheists

I was standing in line with God, buying tickets to see Monsters University. He’s a big Billy Crystal...

In My Opinion

Voting rights ruling a dagger in heart of civil rights movement

In My Opinion

‘Redskins’ is an offensive word, period

See if this makes sense to you:

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Conning Americans to give up privacy

It will not be with guns.

In My Opinion

Toughing out mental illness not an option

I cannot write this the way I want. Doing so would invade the privacy of too many people. But I can’...

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: On Obama scandals, GOP needs to take a breath

You’d think they’d never seen a scandal before.

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Exremism, violence come in all shades and colors

I know this sounds racist, but . . . ”

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...

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...

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, ...

IN MY OPINION

Many unanswered questions in Edward Snowden saga

Screen gems: What’s ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 30

The week ahead at the movies and on TV

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: Congress plots exit from Obamacare coverage

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: War Party beats drums for action in Syria

Is a dangerous partisan divide really destroying the American government? It’s pretty hard to disce...

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...

IN MY OPINION

Ugly truth: Sometimes, torture works

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...

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: Super Bowl ads disturbingly delightful

I spent the entire Super Bowl hoping for an equipment malfunction — and no, not on the how-the-hell-do...