The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Dreaming of a convention center

OUR OPINION: Miami Beach plan deserves public, municipal and county support

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Victory for Biscayne Bay

OUR OPINION: New mitigation deal better protects sealife and keeps PortMiami on track for super-sized ships

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A voice for the ’Glades

OUR OPINION: Tough job ahead for politically savvy advocate

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Doesn’t pass smell test

OUR OPINION: Rep. Rivera may be off the hook on state probe but Florida law needs to change

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Embrace new Dream Act

OUR OPINION: Rubio’s proposal a good first step to fairness

FCAT failure

OUR OPINION: State left door open to cheating

Wise veto

OUR OPINION: Gov. Scott right to nix bad CAT Fund bill

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.

VENEZUELA

Venezuela: Another test for U.N. rights body

One year after the U.N.’s top human-rights body finally removed Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s regime, th...

GUANTANAMO TRIALS

Gitmo trials ‘not the U.S. at its best’

I was in the Pentagon on 9/11. One moment I was chairing a meeting of senior Navy Judge Advocates, the next...

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

Reporters targeted in record numbers

FLORIDA

Two judges, two strikes against drug tests

Just when you think there is not a shred of sanity left in how we run this state, you get a sign.

VENEZUELA

Hugo Chávez’s agony

President Hugo Chávez’s Cuban doctors have already told him that he will most likely not be ali...

BP OIL SPILL

BP settlement offers long-term protection

April 20th marked the two-year anniversary of the BP oil spill and the tragedy brought close to home how vu...

Change the model

Re the April 27 Other Views column Scott’s shell game education budget: I challenge Kathleen Oropez...

Life’s first draft

Like Ana Veciana-Suarez recounted in her nostalgic pack-up-and-move column, I, too, spent time wandering th...

Awestruck columnist

Re the April 26 article Bad timing of Obama’s trip to North Carolina: I had to reread the usually r...

A violent end?

One might get the impression from Leonard Pitts Jr. that George Zimmerman should be found guilty, otherwise...

Bush for vice president

I’m a registered Democrat but will vote for whomever I think will be the best person for the job. I ...

The readers’ forum

Create Syrian safe havens

Sen. Marco Rubio is correct in his assertion that America must create safe havens for the Syrian revolution...

Reverse the injustice

Re the April 24 Other Views article Equal justice for Holocaust survivors: The efforts of Rep. Ileana Ros-...

Gingrich’s quest for glory ends as a punch line

Newt Gingrich never saw it ending this way. The former House speaker, who has long thought of himself as a ...

Chen’s escape a test for freedom

The blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng climbed over the back wall of his home April 22 — and escaped nearl...

Five French lessons for Obama

PARIS — Barack Obama, onetime darling of the international left, has become just another American pr...

Before Arlington, lives fully lived

I go to Arlington National Cemetery to listen. I hear the crackling of calm voices giving situation reports...

Trust is shaken, and a little stirred up

Shocking news, indeed, if you haven’t yet heard: James Bond will be sipping a beer, not a martini, i...

Middle class no longer has a reason to root for the economy to improve

Why should we care about income inequality? A century ago, the answer (at least for the ruling class) was, ...

Why hasn’t Wal-Mart dropped ALEC, too?

Until a few weeks ago, many of us didn’t know the name ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Counc...

In My Opinion

Zimmerman charge will be hard to prove

It will be astonishing if George Zimmerman is convicted of second-degree murder for shooting 17-year-old Tr...

In My Opinion

Stimulus spending for party animals

In a new twist on stimulus spending, the government’s General Services Administration laid out more ...

In My Opinion

Surprise — lawmakers turn down free drug test offer

Among its dubious achievements this year, the Florida Legislature passed a law authorizing random drug test...

In My Opinion

The Rush-Muffin feels the heat

M rs. Limbaugh’s diary:

In My Opinion

New candidate for the Darwin Awards

Special nominee for the Darwin Awards, handed out each year to exceptionally un-evolved members of the huma...

In my opinion

On birth control, GOP shoots itself in the foot

On birth control GOP takes on losing issue

IN MY OPINION

Stadium plan a 'bifurcated rip-off'

The Dolphins will seek a new state law that could increase bed taxes in both Miami-Dade and Broward, and wo...

In my opinion

Don’t blame the Bible

Sometimes, people hide inside the Bible.

In my opinion

Lessons from 20th anniversary of Los Angeles riots

Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell ...

In my opinion

Hitler comparisons vandalize our national memory

John Raese is feeling persecuted.

In my opinion

‘Prince’ doesn’t guarantee happiness

Someday, my prince will come. — Snow White, 1937

In my opinion

If not drug legalization, what, Mr. President?

If President Obama had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. So the president famously said.

In my opinion

Titanic: the moral of a 100-year-old story

There is a single shot, just seconds long, in James Cameron’s newly re-released movie, Titanic, tha...

In my opinion

About time a GOP politician defended Muslim faith

Barack Obama himself has never had the guts to say it.

In My Opinion

Marco Rubio, Dreamers and political calculations

Marco Rubio has cut the Dream Act baby in half, but unlike Solomon’s biblical baby, this 21st centur...

In My Opinion

Is Braman a bully or a reformer?

As an independent voter, I’m not one swayed by partisan slates of candidates during elections.

In My Opinion

Church’s good works, Cuban cardinal’s bad calls

It will take “patience and decisiveness.” So says the pope about changing Cuba’s 53-year-old...

In My Opinion

On ‘inspirational messages’ in public schools what’s the point?

Dear Lord, why is the Florida Legislature calling prayer by any other name? Inspirational messages?

In My Opinion

When I was stalked

For 14 years the criminal file has been stashed in my clothes closet, next to winter gloves and caps I rare...

In My Opinion

Who expected Florida Legislature to give immigrant students a break?

It was more than a long shot. It was a pipe dream that burst into a thousand tears in Tallahassee.

In My Opinion

The art of eating our own

Ask Pepe Croqueta — Miami’s Everyman — about some guy named Jorge Perez donating $35 m...

In my opinion

When R2D2 and C3P0 go to war

As a little kid I worried a lot, about everything from marauding robot armies laying waste to Americans wit...

In my opinion

Today Show’s ‘dirty editing’ of 911 call in Trayvon Martin case

When The Washington Post discovered reporter Janet Cooke had made up a story about an 8-year-old heroin add...

In my opinion

Don’t rush to judgment in Trayvon Martin killing

I’ve read tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of words on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the Sou...

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Local sports franchises take the prize

It’s looking like a great season for the Miami Marlins. The first game hasn’t even played, but al...

In my opinion

Belated Valentine to Fidel (but not from me)

Chalk up another victory for the greeting-card cartel: Valentine’s Day now goes on for weeks, months...

‘ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN’

The profound lies of Deep Throat

Kids say the darndest things. Speaking to a college journalism class last week, I learned the students had ...