The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

One more time: term limits

OUR OPINION: Charter votes in Miami-Dade offer lessons for commissioners

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Playing in the wrong arena

OUR OPINION: Housing the homeless in sports facilities a logistical nightmare that would not address root p...

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Rough seas

OUR OPINION: Congressional panel right to seek answers about Costa Concordia incident to allay publicȁ...

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End business as usual, voters

OUR OPINION: Vote YES on Miami-Dade Commission term limits tied to fair pay

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Romney versus Gingrich

OUR OPINION: In Florida’s Republican primary, electability in the fall should be prime concern

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Butt out!

OUR OPINION: Comply with county request to not smoke in parks — pretty please

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The waterfront in the public interest

OUR OPINION: Miami must ensure access is top priority in Marine Stadium redevelopment

HOMELESS

Stadium plan to house homeless no slam dunk

RAMON MAS TUDELA

Ramon Mas Tudela: A story of renewal

Ramon Mas Tudela passed away on Feb. 1 of natural causes. He was 78 years old. He was my half-brother and t...

CIVILITY

The problem with saying ‘no problem’

No problem!

FLORIDA HOUSE

Why I will vote against casinos

TAXES

Bonfire of the billionaires

Republicans, Democrats, the tea party and the Occupy Movement — it seems Americans from 1 to 99 have...

POLITICS

A call for civility in American politics

PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Race-baiting on the campaign trail

Here are some things you could learn about black Americans from the recent statements and insinuations of R...

Beautification projects

If you live by the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College or use the Shula Expressway, you probably noticed t...

Critical thinking

The Jan. 31 letter Union protects incompetent teachers says that, “Competent teachers do not need t...

It’s contagious

This disease really is contagious: county commissioners making horrible deals and granting well-heeled majo...

Finite Earth

Re the Jan 23 Other Views article Stopping the clock: Juliette Kayyem writes eloquently about stopping the...

Corporate citizens

It was a bad decision by the Supreme Court to grant corporations the same First Amendment rights as people....

The readers’ forum

Show youth that civility matters

Abraham Foxman’s sobering Feb. 3 Other Views article, A call for civility amid appeals to hate, is ...

Get engaged

Fabiola Santiago’s Feb. 1 column, No time for apathy in voting, demonstrates excellent commentary, ...

California college not alone in admissions mischief

The news that Claremont McKenna College submitted false SAT scores for incoming freshmen to U.S. News & Wor...

Buddy Holly: The music lives

The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her...

A false portrait of sexual violence in the United States

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual vi...

Rushdie falls victim to Indian intolerance

In 1984, criticizing George Orwell for having advocated political quietism to writers, Salman Rushdie asse...

Have voters ditched family values?

The first Washington sex scandal I remember following involved Daniel Crane, a Republican congressman from ...

Obama defends bailouts, handouts and cop-outs

State of the Union addresses provide insight into the vision of America embraced by the president, and in t...

Top 10 trends in global freedom

One might expect, given last year’s headlines across the Middle East as well as promising political ...

Dream candidate? Only for Democrats

If you’re a Democrat, here’s what you’re thinking two days before the Florida’s...

Those big snakes are here to stay

Now that federal regulators have outlawed the importation of humongous, gator-eating pythons, all Floridian...

Haiti: Not trendy, not chic, just real news

Mitt wins … unless he blows it

Florida is being overrun by pundits and pollsters in advance of the upcoming Republican presidential primary.

Why some lawmakers are in panic

An absolutely true news item: Having passed a law allowing gun owners to bring their weapons inside the st...

Only in Miami: Indicted, but on the payroll

More proof that Miami is the worst-run city in America:

In My Opinion

Taxpayers harpooned on stadium

The new Miami Marlins stadium is rising to completion in Little Havana, and rising with it is the blood pr...

In my opinion

Looking for morning in America

In my opinion

Rep. Giffords’ departure a blow to democracy

In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.

In my opinion

Practicing the politics of racial resentment

I got my first job when I was 12. The deacons at my church paid me $2 a week to keep it swept and mopped.

In my opinion

Strip club’s ‘I Have a dream bash’ hardens the heart

You might call this a requiem for reverence.

In my opinion

On video of Taliban corpses, let’s not be so quick to pass judgment

Nearly 30 years ago Greg told me how it was, cutting the ears off dead men.

In my opinion

The new Jim Crow alive and thriving

I have something for you.

In my opinion

Boo! A scary word for bigots

We gather here today to parse the meaning of “boo.”

In My Opinion

Newt, Mitt and our next ambassador to the moon

To paraphrase Jackie Gleason’s legendary TV character Ralph Kramden, “To the moon, Newt!”

In My Opinion

‘Run for Roots’ moves the conversation on Cuba fast forward

Carmen Pelaez, a playwright and actress who grew up in Miami and made a name for herself nationally with he...

In My Opinion

On education, money counts

Money can’t buy you love, and maybe it can’t buy you happiness, but can it buy a top-notch ed...

In My Opinion

Latest budget fight in Miami-Dade a tragic comedy of political manipulation

There were moments of deep sadness in the midst of raw political maneuvering. The families of two slain off...

In My Opinion

Santa’s gifts for South Florida’s movers and shakers

This year Santa delivered special gifts to all the good boys and girls in South Florida, but it almost didn...

In My Opinion

The art of eating our own

Ask Pepe Croqueta — Miami’s Everyman — about some guy named Jorge Perez donating $35 m...

In my opinion

Stop bothering the Fed, you peasant taxpayers!

Breaking news: When it came to the collapse of the bubble that touched off the 2008 meltdown of the U.S. ec...

In my opinion

Does the GOP really want a return to the buggy-whip economy?

George Wallace, when he made a third-party run for the presidency in 1968, acidly observed that there wasn&...

Correction

A column by Glenn Garvin on Dec. 20 stated that the National Science Foundation “funded a study on J...

In my opinion

Great moments in history? Not so much

I knew 2011 was going to be one of those years when I wrote a column saying that $80 billion of proposed fe...

In my opinion

In war on drugs, dissent ‘unpatriotic’

I owe Kyle Vogt an apology. A former military policeman, he’s now a member of a group called Law Enf...

Glenn Garvin

Giving bullies a veto on the First Amendment

Imagine five Jewish kids go to school one day wearing their yarmulkes. The school’s numerous skinhead ...

Glenn Garvin

Ortega could have won fairly … but he didn’t

Nicaragua may be the only country in the world that’s perpetually under a full moon, so it’s ...