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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
Other Views
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PAKISTAN
Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif’s third chance to get it right
BY MANSURA MINHAS
On May 11, Pakistanis rejoiced at the first peaceful transition of power from one civilian government to another. However, that should not overshadow the problems that the country faces. The ball is in Nawaz Sharif’s court, the likely next prime minister. Having served twice before, he is lucky to have a rare, third chance to run the country.
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MELTING ARCTIC
Melting Arctic requires U.S. action
BY JULIETTE KAYYEM
The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations — particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The process is like the annual scramble for summer camp: The need for planning begins around February, when the season seems so far away and the kids are still in school and wearing snow boots. Then, suddenly, it’s mid-May.
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D.C. SCANDALS
D.C. scandals need to be put in perspective
BY RUTH MARCUS
Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It’s a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph — not even the first page — of the account of the Obama administration in the history books.
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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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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Closer to the brink
OUR OPINION: Increase in greenhouse gases reaches ominous milestone
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Miami-Dade unions face tough medicine to ensure county’s fiscal health
OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade County government workers will need to keep contributing to their health insurance
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Everglades on the line
OUR OPINION: Senate needs to act on vital water legislation
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Try again
OUR OPINION: Firings at Citizens Insurance deserve second look
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NEW TRAVEL RULES
Leaving Castro’s Cuba behind
The first wave of Cubans — many of them for the first time in 50 years — are leaving their is...
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BERLIN WALL
Yoani Sánchez: My father’s dream
The rumble of a train comes through the window. In Berlin there is always the sound of a train somewhere.
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K12 online learning provider compliant with law
There was a serious case of selective reporting in the May 12 article, K12 Inc. struggled to comply with la...
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Street vendors make honest living
After reading the May 15 letter, Street vendors’ havoc, I must express my support for these unique a...
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IRS’ probes of tea party groups warranted
While I’m no fan of the IRS, and I don’t approve of any administration using it as a politica...
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Insane price for ointment makes for bad medicine
I have a great example of how our healthcare costs have gone completely out of control. I recently needed h...
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The readers’ forum
UM Hospital raises standards across South Florida
Last fall, after months of ignoring my gastrointestinal distress, I sought a blood test, which prompted an ...
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FIU thanks legislators for education commitment
I would like to commend publicly our elected officials who this year put higher education front and center ...
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Plant thief at Fairchild Gardens
I was recently at Fairchild Gardens and after much consideration, purchased two lovely specimens from the F...
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Putin’s power grab trumps nanotechnology
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s changing attitude toward two giant government-led high-tech proje...
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Bring back managed trade to help workers’ safety
If all it took were official cajoling, public shaming, technical assistance or corporate promises, factory ...
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How to lose a fight online
In Scottsdale, Ariz., there is a restaurant so far gone that even Gordon Ramsay’s shouting cannot sa...
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The real scandal of Benghazi
Yes, Virginia, there is a Benghazi scandal.
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First Amendment protects more than press
The Obama administration announced last week that it is throwing its support behind the press shield law th...
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How nonprofits cane to acquire tax-exempt status
The uproar over allegations of politically motivated investigations by the Internal Revenue Service shouldn...
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The curious case of the black viral star
We knew it was coming. The formula is practically scientific: Disaster strikes; poor black person foils it ...
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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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Leonard Pitts: Reese Witherspoon’s bratty question: Do you know who I am?
This is for the rest of us.
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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 that’s high profile and in the crosshairs of t...
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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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IN MY OPINION
Glenn Garvin: The left’s science deniers
If this column appeared under the headline, “Massive defeat for the anti-science forces,” you...
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