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Michael Putney
Michael Putney is the political and governmental reporter for Miami's ABC affiliate, WPLG-Channel 10, where he also hosts This Week in South Florida with Michael Putney. A native New Yorker, he is a graduate of the University of Missouri. He worked as a reporter for the Dow Jones weekly The National Observer, was a writer for Time Inc. and came to Miami in 1977 to work for The Miami Herald. He joined WTVJ in 1981 and in 1989 moved to WPLG. He has won numerous awards in his career, including two Emmys for reporting and commentary.

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MIAMI-DADE COMMISSIONERS

Baby, you can’t drive my car

I’m pretty sure the job description for the Miami-Dade Commission sergeant at arms doesn’t include chauffeur duties, but there he was — a Miami-Dade police officer (in business attire) — pulling into the VIP parking lot behind the Miami-Dade Government Center recently in a big county-owned SUV with just one passenger: Commissioner Barbara Jordan.

  • GOV. RICK SCOTT

    Gov. Scott gets it wrong again

    There he goes again, vetoing a bill he should have signed and signing a bill he should have vetoed.

  • TRAYVON MARTIN CASE

    Guns, the NRA and Stand Your Ground

    George Zimmerman’s problems started well before he profiled Trayvon Martin because he was young, black and wearing a hoodie. No, the problems started when Zimmerman strapped on a gun and started acting like a quasi-cop. That profoundly changed the dynamic of Zimmerman’s fatal encounter with Trayvon.

  • PAPAL VISIT

    Pope Benedict and the road to reconciliation

    Pope Benedict, we learned the other day, has commissioned a personal cologne. That seems more than a little effete, but he’ll need it in Cuba to mask the stench of political, civic and social repression.

  • LEGISLATURE

    Lawmakers, go home. Please.

    Florida lawmakers are in the final throes of their annual session. And Floridians are in the beginning throes of having to live with what they’ve done.

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