Stop the stalling, help small businesses

OUR OPINION: Free up money for loans to hire workers

Local perspectives

MIAMI MARINE STADIUM GETS A BOOST No doubt Mayor Tomás Regalado has a lot on his to-do list, bu...

Build Broward courthouse right

OUR OPINION: Replacing decrepit Broward courthouse is the right decision by commission

Texting madness

OUR OPINION: Florida should outlaw texting while driving

End of the road for Mars rover

OUR OPINION: Mars rover Spirit had a fantastic journey

Protect Haitian orphans

OUR OPINION: Missionary effort to help Haiti's children misguided

Repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' now

OUR OPINION: Biased policy against gays is self-defeating

U.S. CENSUS

Be sure to be counted

In a country as large as the United States, how is it possible to count each person residing within its bor...

TEA PARTYERS

Onward! (But to where)?

They spoke to me about the downfall of America, with fear burning in their eyes. It was vintage ``tea party...

IN HAITI

Reform property laws

In 1928, the American occupation government set out to map Haiti from the air. Its goal was to implement a ...

BUSINESS

Toyota gets a ding

Afriend of mine once had a Toyota that wouldn't die. The odometer had only a dim recollection of passing 10...

FLORIDA

Innovate -- for our future

Here's some good news: Florida's economy is showing some new life. And here's a challenge: Do we want to go...

VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN

He's high on America

Vice President Joe Biden is tired of seeing the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan demeaned, der...

JUVENILE CRIME

Get rid of direct-file law

In the early 1990s, following highly publicized tourist murders, the Florida Legislature reacted by passing...

Partisan bickering hinders our nation's progress

In his State of the Union Address President Obama stressed the importance of Congress coming together for A...

Barry's a booster

To all those people who are upset about Dave Barry's Feb. 3 Super Bowl column, Tourist beware: Do NOT go ou...

Pelosi undermines Obama's quest for change

Leonard Pitts Jr.'s Feb. 3 Other Views column What matters more? Reelection or country? is insightful, wise...

Ugly food fight

Where else would you find folks securely cushioned with Social Security benefits and Medicare who fill a to...

MEDICAL CARE

Airlifts vital to treat injured

I am an attorney who has worked with South Florida's Haitian community for several years. After the earthqu...

RECOVERY

Doing ill, doing good

Re the Jan. 31 Baptists say they were trying to do good in Haiti: At a time of chaos, when we are trying to...

PERSEVERANCE

Let's display the same courage as the Haitians

The tragic situation in Haiti should sadden us all. But the reactions of the Haitian people should be a les...

Why are liberals so condescending?

Every political community includes some members who insist that their side has all the answers and that the...

The full cost of medical fraud

Medical fraud kills people. Because it does this slowly and indirectly, we tend not to notice it, and our r...

The Right Dreams at NASA

What do rockets burn for fuel? Money. Money that is contributed by working families who have mortgages and ...

The United Nations is on the job in Haiti

As the dust settles from the massive earthquake in Haiti, the precise scale of devastation is becoming clea...

In the race for education reform, some false starts

In the brave new world of data-driven education reform, most states have learned how to talk the talk. Star...

A disappointing defense review

Every four years, the Department of Defense issues its Quadrennial Defense Review, a comprehensive vision s...

Would losing control of Congress to GOP help Obama?

Last week the opposition party wrote a startling new entry in the Annals of Obstruction: Republicans were s...

Fast trains are cool . . . and very expensive

Of all the ways Florida could blow through $1.25 billion in federal recovery funds, a bullet train is certa...

Don't let Haiti's tragedy fade away

After the terrible earthquake, a man named Steve Driscoll food and and water; the injured are desperate for...

Robertson again blaming the victims

It's no secret that the Rev. Pat Robertson is a yammering fool, but last week he hit a new low.

OPINION

Raindrops keep falling on NFL dunderheads

As Super Bowl XLIV approaches, the National investment. We are told that the 2007 Super Bowl brought $463 m...

No reason for optimism about war in Afghanistan

According to the polls, President Obama's speech announcing the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan won over a ...

What was Tiger thinking?

(Rejected first draft of a statement by Tiger Woods prepared for his Web site.) Two weeks ago on this page...

Johnston's 15 minutes are up

Times are hard, but the pathway to fame in America has never been easier. No talent is required -- you ...

GAY RIGHTS

`Don't ask, don't tell' was always wrong

We already know where this is going. For some of us, the knowledge is hateful, for others, hopeful. Ye...

Paradox of blacks' sacrifice

It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hil...

OBAMA/GOP

What matters most? Reelection or country?

Come now, let us reason together...'' Isaiah 1:18 A few words about that important speech President Oba...

Public silence greets poor's powerlessness

If he'd said it of Jews, he would still be apologizing. If he'd said it of blacks, he'd be on BET, beg...

ACHIEVEMENT

Everybody has a shot at being an athlete

Don Lewis thinks white men can't jump. What else explains the bizarre statement he issued last week? Ac...

COLUMNISTS | LEONARD PITTS

Jesus and gun sights don't mix

Have you heard about the Jesus rifles? Islam. In the third place, the coded scriptural references p...

CONSERVATIVES

An `obscene' view of Haiti tragedy

As babies were being pulled, crushed and broken, from the rubble.

STADIUM

Why don't the Miami Dolphins' owners pay for stadium upgrades?

Emilio Estefan has just published an autobiography, The Rhythm of Success: How an Immigrant Produced his ow...

FITNESS CHALLENGE

Diet secret revealed!

Forget 2012! A new world dawns today! For centuries, a cabal of nutritionists, gym instructors and bulimic ...

TELEVISION

O'Brien draws line in sand at 11:35 p.m.

Conan O'Brien on Tuesday told NBC to stick its late-night shuffle where the video don't shine. Saying he wo...

MIAMI HERALD FITNESS CHALLENGE

Fitness contestants are off -- to a queasy start

ENTERTAINMENT | LENO'S SHOW CANCELED

NBC will have a tough time pleasing everyone

Think of Jay Leno as a prisoner in a frontier jail, NBC affiliates as the angry lynch mob forming out in th...

BOLIVIA

An odd kind of democracy

Let's see if you could pass a Latin American civics course. Which is more democratic: Country H, where all ...

OBAMA

High-level musings from China

Dear Michelle: Sure wish you were here -- China is really cool. Hey, remember how Nixon kept repeating,...