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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Give nod to Pets’ Trust
OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade Commission should approve cost-effective spay, neuter programs
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MIAMI HERALD| EDITORIAL
Internet sales get free ride in Florida
OUR OPINION: All Internet sales companies should collect Florida sales tax, as Amazon will do soon
Other Views
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IN MY OPINION
Glenn Garvin: Congress plots exit from Obamacare coverage
BY GLENN GARVIN
Congress is not as stupid as you think.
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MDX
MDX tolls keep rising: Let your voice be heard
BY ED MACDOUGALL
As the mayor of Cutler Bay I have had to field many questions from my constituents about the Miami Dade Expressway Authority (MDX). I have to explain to my citizens that this board is appointed by politicians but the members are not elected, and they have full control over five Miami-Dade County roads (State Roads 112,836, 874, 978, and 924).
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SCHOOL GRADES
Florida’s grading formula a threat to accountability system
BY ALBERTO M. CARVALHO
Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) students outperformed the state in cumulative growth in reading and mathematics across all grades tested, according to recently released Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) results. In spite of improved performance, educators across Florida are bracing for lower school grades as the result of numerous accountability changes imposed by Florida over the last two years.
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Election fraud: From the streets to cyberspace
OUR OPINION: The Legislature must get tougher on absentee-ballot fraud
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Worth a thousand words
The Miami Herald Editorial Board is sharing with our online readers the viewpoints of cartoonists from thro...
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Don’t fritter away Dolphins’ funds
OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade should spend $2.3 million windfall to improve election process
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
For Miami’s chronic homeless, more beds needed
OUR OPINION: Miami, advocates can develop a legally sound plan to deal with chronic homelessness
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Miami’s Silicon Beach
OUR OPINION: South Florida is at a critical juncture to lure global high tech companies and startup capital
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
A mean-spirited veto
OUR OPINION: Gov. Scott fails young immigrants on driver’s license bill. Will he outlaw earned sick ...
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Keynoter | EDITORIAL
No place for ICE
OUR OPINION: Feds need to fold their cards on using Tavernier building for immigration, customs enforcement
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GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
On government surveillance, Americans complicit
The most vexing issue the world has dealt with is how the German people allowed the machinery of the German...
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AMERICANA
Superman’s Jewish roots inspire
He didn’t look Jewish. Not with his perfect pug nose, electric blue eyes and a boyish spit curl that...
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Governor doesn’t care
By signing HB 655, which bars local governments from enacting their own ordinances on employee benefits, Go...
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Don’t pile on the food
I enjoy the well-researched and well-written restaurant reviews in the Tropical Life section and have enjoy...
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Let only 50,000 immigrants in
The United States should allow only 50,000 immigrants a year to enter the country. Of these 50,000, there s...
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CRA doles out big bucks
While some taxpayers are dreaming about the Margaritaville resort, I wonder, how many major players would h...
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The readers’ forum
Final goal of Everglades restoration in sight
This spring I was proud to carry a House bill to conclude Everglades restoration south of Lake Okeechobee, ...
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High-tech dreams
The June 12 editorial, Miami’s Silicon Beach, concerning efforts to bring high-tech companies to Sou...
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Build brick houses
How come the people in Oklahoma and the rest of Tornado Alley don’t take a cue from the Three Little...
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Liberals should lead entitlement reform
If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increa...
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Don’t underestimate importance of Rohani victory in Iran
Iran’s presidential election presents a paradox. The vote was free enough for Hassan Rohani to score...
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Obama, the ‘big data’ president
In the political world, the promise of data — whether it’s Nate Silver’s spot-on elec...
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Iran’s agents in Latin America
As Iran chooses a new president this week, the activities of its powerful intelligence services have also ...
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Hillary Clinton on Twitter: A loss of faith?
There were two surprising things about Hillary Clinton’s first tweet.
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Freedom and security: striking a balance
“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail,” said Secretary of State Henry Stimson of hi...
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Is NSA’s snooping worse than TSA’s groping?
Here’s a question: Would I rather have my phone records collected and readied for possible inspectio...
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: Memo on IRS scandal
(Emergency revisions to conference-planning guidelines for the Internal Revenue Service).
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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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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’...
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: On Obama scandals, GOP needs to take a breath
You’d think they’d never seen a scandal before.
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Exremism, violence come in all shades and colors
I know this sounds racist, but . . . ”
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Boy Scouts’ decision shows gay rights are the future
Hold your applause. As milestones go, this one is disappointing.
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: On machete-wielding terrorists in London: Don’t be complicit
I have not seen the video.
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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
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: War Party beats drums for action in Syria
Is a dangerous partisan divide really destroying the American government? It’s pretty hard to disce...
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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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