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  • The readers’ forum

    Adding beds won’t solve homeless problem

    Re the June 14 story City to add 15 beds at shelters: Over the last several weeks our community has watched several Miami commissioners’ efforts to deal with the homeless population in and around the downtown urban core.

  • Obama no war monger

    There are, of course, many reasons to be grateful that President Obama defeated Sen. John McCain in 2008. But perhaps Syria is the biggest reason.

  • Team’s conduct unbecoming

    Shame on the Miami Heat players, team management and the NBA for the deportment of the Heat players during the playing of the National Anthem before Game 4. Their disrespect was reprehensible and warrants immediate action by the league office. Not one of them rendered appropriate honor to our nation. They looked like a bunch of thugs.

  • Slippery slope on bilingualism

    Recently Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia delivered an entire speech in Spanish on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Kane added, “One of my people got a call by a Latino staffer in the House who said, ‘I have waited 20 years to see this happen.’”

  • Abolish death penalty

    Gov. Rick Scott’s signing of a bill to shorten the death-penalty appeals process can only court the execution of the innocent. Execution, the most grievous and irreversible of penalties, should be abolished.

  • President sets the tone

    The mood, the tone, the ethos, the sly and the slick of all we are discovering in our government’s actions is launched from President Obama’s office.

  • The readers’ forum

    Juneteenth — a celebration of freedom

    Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, the Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with the news that the war had ended and freed all remaining slaves. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — which had become official on Jan. 1, 1863.

  • Bees not news

    Re the June 16 story Miami couple saddened after bee hive destroyed: It must have been a slow news day for the Miami Herald. This article took up two-thirds of a page in the newspaper’s local section.

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  • Bees could be saved

    An experienced bee keeper could have moved the beehive to a less troublesome location; perhaps on the coupl...

  • Don’t hurry executions

    Re the June 14 story Gov. Rick Scott signs bill to speed up executions in Florida: Why the rush to execute?...

  • Mistakes were made

    The headline How could this happen? over the Shuckers deck-collapse story really should have been placed ov...

  • Citizens is not on our side

    Re the June 14 story Scott, others were told about insurance deal: I find it amusing that Adam Hollingswort...

  • Fraud is fraud

    Re the June 16 editorial, Election fraud: From the streets to cyberspace: OK, so last year, there was no su...

  • On Syria, tread carefully

    Americans who are critical of our government’s seemingly slow response to aiding the Syrian rebels n...

  • The readers’ forum

    Support small businesses

    The number of small businesses in the United States and their economic impact has increased dramatically in...

  • The Marlins? Ho-hum

    I feel like we don’t have a baseball team in Miami anymore. At least not a bonafide Major League team.

  • Governor doesn’t care

    By signing HB 655, which bars local governments from enacting their own ordinances on employee benefits, Go...

  • Don’t pile on the food

    I enjoy the well-researched and well-written restaurant reviews in the Tropical Life section and have enjoy...

  • 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...

  • Commentary