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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
DCF’s fatal flaws
OUR OPINION: Child-welfare agency underplays chance of risk, and children suffer
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The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
South Florida regaining lost ground
OUR OPINION: Overall, the state’s budget moves in right direction
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FLORIDA
Michael Putney: Death penalty politics in Florida
BY MICHAEL PUTNEY
I recently met Florida death penalty exonerees 23 and 24. They are, respectively, Herman Lindsey of Pompano Beach and Seth Penalver of Fort Lauderdale. They’re not choir boys, but they’re not murderers, either. And they were on the list to be killed by the state.
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CENTRAL AMERICA
Sen. Robert Menendez: How to deal with the growing security crisis in Central America
BY ROBERT MENENDEZ
During the last decade in countries like Brazil, Chile and other areas in Latin America, changing economic policies and innovative social inclusion programs are giving rise to economic growth built on exports and an increasingly prosperous middle class. But in Central America, a region of growing strategic importance to the United States, many countries face a bourgeoning security and law-enforcement crisis that demands greater attention from us all.
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IN MY OPINION
Glenn Garvin: Welcome to ‘unwelcome’ speech on campus
BY GLENN GARVIN glenngarvin@miamiherald.com
I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Benghazi, the IRS and spying on reporters. But still, I was surprised there wasn’t more fuss about the Obama administration’s war on Shakespeare.
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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
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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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APPAREL INDUSTRY
On Asian sweatshops Americans share blame
Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I’m...
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D.C. SCANDALS
D.C. scandals need to be put in perspective
Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It’s a bad stretch with an un...
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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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Where was Obama during attack?
On five Sunday television talk shows, the Obama administration sent out senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer to down...
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Bathroom reading?
Re the May 20 letter An honest living, about street vendors: Fine, let them sell water, flowers, fruits and...
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MAM mum
Re the May 18 story Miami Art Museum gets anonymous $15 million gift: This public-relations announcement di...
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Lack of planning
Regardless of the spin by all parties, one fact remains clear: Despite what our country experienced on Sept...
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Focus on Americans’ needs
Elected officials can create all the crises they want over Benghazi, the IRS and √The AP, but the pu...
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Volkswagen ad offensive
Americans have short memories and are uneducated about the Holocaust. Am I the only person offended by the ...
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The readers’ forum
The real loss: Public trust
Mayor Carlos Gimenez recently revealed that Miami-Dade County faces a $50 million-plus budget shortfall, al...
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The issue behind Syria’s civil war
I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was terrifying — much more so than I anticipat...
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On spying and Moscow rules
The arrest of the American diplomat, Ryan Fogle, in Moscow last week, was a journey to an earlier era, a th...
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How Obama can rescue his presidency from faux scandals
Here’s the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to ...
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How a Texas paper brought down con man Billie Sol Estes
Billie Sol Estes, the Texan con man whose exploits rattled the administrations of Presidents John F. Kenned...
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Almost nothing Obama says can be taken at face value
It turns out that President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget is no more trustworthy than the ...
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IRS tax-exempt rules are the real scandal
It’s strange how “scandal” gets defined these days in Washington. At the moment, ever...
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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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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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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 thats high profile and in the crosshairs of t...
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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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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
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