The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

The key to smart development

OUR OPINION: A Virginia Key oversight board can balance competing interests

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Valid exit strategy from Afghanistan

OUR OPINION: Time has come to withdraw

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Getting it right this time

OUR OPINION: Institute sensible grading guideposts for FCAT

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Bad deal with little in return

OUR OPINION: Postal Service is looking to cut rates for a national direct-mail business which would hurt lo...

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Invest in the community’s goals

OUR OPINION: Action required to fulfill One Community One Goal plan to grow and diversify Miami-Dade’...

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‘Cash Mob’ a creative way to help local businesses

OUR OPINION: Young professionals look to ‘cash mob’ to help a small business

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

FCAT writing fiasco

OUR OPINION: A plunge in scores inevitable as state rushes through reforms

GAY UNIONS

Miami Archbishop: Gay marriage devalues all marriages

UNIVERSITY BUDGETS

Why I’m relieved my daughter won’t be a Gator

BANKING

New IRS rule scares foreign depositors

Florida banks are rightly alarmed over a new IRS reporting requirement because it involves losing job-creat...

ENVIRONMENT

One way to fight global warming locally

Just as hybrid cars are using advanced engineering to cut gasoline bills, technology can cut the cost of co...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Faux rage over ‘Ricketts Plan’

What a difference four years make.

EDUCATION

In Florida, tutoring works

For far too long, education in America has ignored the students it is supposed to serve and pandered to the...

HURRICANES

The coming storm in flood insurance

The name Alberto probably doesn’t mean much to someone living in Florida, but it’s a name wor...

Vulnerable are harmed

The U.S. House recently voted to increase poverty. Programs that provide a hand up not a handout and have a...

Survival of the fittest

The mullahs of Iran have stated that it’s their religious duty to eradicate six million Israeli Jews...

Visas for all

I read with dismay the May 23 article Mariela Castro tops US visit with transgender talk, about Raul Castr...

Increase public transit

As the incredible amount of road expansion, flyovers, bridges and concrete monstrosities continues to rise ...

No connection

Add social ineptitude to Gov. Scott’s other attributes. Just because someone made a lot of money, do...

The readers’ forum

Silence in the face of violence

Almost a month ago, a Coral Gables travel agency chartering flights to Cuba was firebombed. The agency had ...

Schools undercut

Re the May 20 column by Myriam Marquez, State shares blame for school woes: Marquez honestly addresses how...

Five dictators with mommy issues

The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who was very close with his mother, once remarked that “peop...

How super-PACs will keep the presidential race clean

Strangely enough, the 2012 presidential campaign, expected to be the dirtiest in modern memory, may end up ...

Our love of driving is decelerating

Good news for Memorial Day weekend: Since peaking at a national average of $3.93 on April 5, the price of r...

NAACP follows Obama’s lead

When leaders lead, especially on difficult social issues that demand the end of an injustice or the expansi...

In Romney, Mormons see path to Christian mainstream

During the 2008 presidential primary race, evangelical stalwart Mike Huckabee darkly hinted that Mitt Romn...

Are polls now less reliable?

When you get a call on your cellphone from an unfamiliar number, do you answer it? If the person on the oth...

Five myths about independent voters

Forty percent of all registered voters are independents — the highest figure since Gallup started ke...

In My Opinion

Hail to our newest campus: Useless State

At a time when Florida’s 11 state universities are financially gasping, the Legislature and Gov. Ric...

In My Opinion

Fat cat urged to bankroll anti-Obama hatefest

Joe Ricketts has decided not to spend $10 million on hate. Good call.

In My Opinion

A violent homicide isn’t hazing

Eleven of the 13 people who allegedly participated in killing Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion have b...

In My Opinion

Zimmerman charge will be hard to prove

It will be astonishing if George Zimmerman is convicted of second-degree murder for shooting 17-year-old Tr...

In My Opinion

Stimulus spending for party animals

In a new twist on stimulus spending, the government’s General Services Administration laid out more ...

In My Opinion

Surprise — lawmakers turn down free drug test offer

Among its dubious achievements this year, the Florida Legislature passed a law authorizing random drug test...

In My Opinion

The Rush-Muffin feels the heat

M rs. Limbaugh’s diary:

In my opinion

The remote control that revolutionized our ‘fat assets’

We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives.

In my opinion

Goofy GOP plans against Obama’s re-election

I , too, sing America.

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Some harsh sentences prove unjust

So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges ...

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Don’t blame the Dems for hyper-partisanship

And another one bites the dust.

In my opinion

Serendipity in Obama’s timing on gay marriage

So apparently, Barack Obama is finally done evolving.

In my opinion

A pertinent question amid U.S. justice system’s revolving door

I promised Russell I would ask you something.

In my opinion

Trayvon ‘killed by a stereotype’

I don’t care about George Zimmerman’s MySpace page.

In My Opinion

Hunting for elephants, unleashing political tsunamis

The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. That is, unless the governor of Florida, the Honorable Blinkle...

In My Opinion

Hold politicians accountable for education

The FCAT writing fiasco is not a failure — it’s an opportunity to slow down and get things right....

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Another attack on immigrants in the name of fighting voter fraud in Florida

Attention Nora Arce, Hugo Cohen, Lorna Clarke, Cheryes Jerome, Carmen Rodriguez, Keith Seymour, Paul Tien a...

In My Opinion

Marco Rubio, Dreamers and political calculations

Marco Rubio has cut the Dream Act baby in half, but unlike Solomon’s biblical baby, this 21st centur...

In My Opinion

Is Braman a bully or a reformer?

As an independent voter, I’m not one swayed by partisan slates of candidates during elections.

In My Opinion

Church’s good works, Cuban cardinal’s bad calls

It will take “patience and decisiveness.” So says the pope about changing Cuba’s 53-year-old...

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On ‘inspirational messages’ in public schools what’s the point?

Dear Lord, why is the Florida Legislature calling prayer by any other name? Inspirational messages?

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Obama reneges on secrecy pledge

There were no cameras around to record whether President Obama was winking when, on his first full day in o...

television

After 10-year ride, R.I.P. ‘CSI: Miami’

If this were an episode of CSI : Miami, David Caruso would look grimly into the camera. “The only t...

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Death of a tyrant

When the Marxist Sandinista party he had helped found was driven from power in Nicaragua, it understandably...

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When R2D2 and C3P0 go to war

As a little kid I worried a lot, about everything from marauding robot armies laying waste to Americans wit...

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Today Show’s ‘dirty editing’ of 911 call in Trayvon Martin case

When The Washington Post discovered reporter Janet Cooke had made up a story about an 8-year-old heroin add...

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Don’t rush to judgment in Trayvon Martin killing

I’ve read tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of words on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the Sou...

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Local sports franchises take the prize

It’s looking like a great season for the Miami Marlins. The first game hasn’t even played, but al...