MiamiHerald.com: Michael Putney

Baby, you can’t drive my car

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:09 EDT

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. Scott gets it wrong again

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:23 EDT

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

Guns, the NRA and Stand Your Ground

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:43 EDT

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.

Pope Benedict and the road to reconciliation

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:02 EDT

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.

Lawmakers, go home. Please.

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:14 EST

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.