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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
EPA rules
OUR OPINION: Supreme Court reaffirms agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions
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We can’t let LeBron James take his talents elsewhere — here are 5 reasons why
Five reasons why we must keep LeBron James in Miami. Send us yours:
Other Views
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts: ‘Maybe we all have to come out’
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
His family doesn’t know if Zack actually heard any of it firsthand.
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MIDEAST
Obama must explain why Iraq still matters
BY TRUDY RUBIN
When President Obama went on TV last week to outline his response to terrorist advances in Iraq, he missed a chance to do something essential: Convey how serious the threat is to the Mideast — and to us.
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AMENDMENT 1
Scott evasive on land and water amendment
BY STEVE BOUSQUET
It was a simple question, but as is often the case with Gov. Rick Scott, there was no simple answer.
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Make a date to debate, Charlie Crist
OUR OPINION: Former governor should make no assumptions — he should debate Nan Rich
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Jackson Memorial’s comeback story
OUR OPINION: Impartial board of experts must oversee Jackson’s spending plan
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Worth a thousand words
The Miami Herald Editorial Board shares the viewpoints of cartoonists from across the country in this Satur...
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
A vote for peace in Colombia
OUR OPINION: President Santos receives a vote of confidence from the electorate
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Miami Herald | EDITORIAL
Same old same old
OUR OPINION: DCF’s missing records, “paperless” investigation warrant an independent c...
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FLORIDA
Florida districting trial exposes political dirty laundry
Every 10 years after a census, political lines are redrawn nationally to reapportion congressional seats ba...
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IRAQ
Here’s hoping Obama succeeds in Iraq
On Iraq, President Obama is trying to pull off a perilous tight-rope walk over a blustery forest fire. He f...
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WORLD CUP
Kicking around our new cultural reality
Americans are being seduced by the beautiful game. A total of 15.9 million viewers watched the U.S soccer t...
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POLITICS
What would actually happen if Tea Partiers ran the country?
What exactly does the tea party movement want?
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Mr. Arison, Keep LeBron
As season ticket holders for almost 20 years, we can proudly declare ourselves serious Miami Heat fans.
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The readers’ forum
Florida should expand Medicaid program
On June 10, Cedernier, a 59-year-old native of Haiti, was pronounced dead. His diagnosis? Cancer of the col...
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The readers’ forum
Underserved communities rely on public libraries
The polling data reported in the June 10 article, Herald poll: Miami-Dade voters don’t want a librar...
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Blown home advantage
As a Miami Marlins season-ticket holder, I had the unfortunate experience of being at Sunday’s home ...
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Safer in the air
I hope the June 23 editorial, Flight risk, does not scare people away from flying. Flying is still the safe...
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Willing to pay for libraries
We were delighted to read Fabiola Santiago’s June 10 column, Voters want efficiency, trust in govern...
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1964 civil rights victim
Thank you, William Silver, for sharing with us the June 21 Other Views story in of your cousin, The life an...
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Mexico should be accountable
The answer to our problem of illegal immigrants coming across our Mexican border can be found in the princi...
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You can do better than this, Silicon Valley
A new messaging app, called Yo, has created a sensation in Silicon Valley. It is being hailed as the next b...
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For millennials, out-of-wedlock childbirth is the norm
Instead of continuing to talk about ways to reduce the number of single mothers in the United States, maybe...
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Congress needs to weigh in on Iraq
By the spring of 1975, U.S. combat troops had been gone from Vietnam for two years. The country’s lo...
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President had the worst week in Washington
Six years ago, Barack Obama ran for president promising to end what he described as “a dumb war ...
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Fantasy-speak on immigration
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Barack Obama and a longtime confidant of the president, told reporters...
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On Cuba, Hillary Clinton’s not as smart as she seems
“The Smartest Woman in the World” flunked her foreign-policy exam. Worse still, she was U.S. ...
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Second thoughts on Iraq
The panic that engulfed this capital after the fall of Mosul, when it appeared that the Islamist fanatics o...
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Children’s crusade re-enacts the American story
The recent cascade of Central American children crossing the Rio Grande and surrendering as fast as they c...
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: Anyone here miss Cheney? Neither do I.
As Iraq ruptures into fragments, none other than Dick Cheney has shambled forth to blame Barack Obama.
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In my opinion
Carl Hiaasen: High turnout (wink, wink) could hurt Scott
The geniuses running the Republican campaign effort in Florida have now decided that stirring opposition to...
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: Small men with ugly thoughts, expressed aloud
Lonesome Racist of the Week: Robert Copeland of Wolfeboro, N.H.
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: Charlie, this flip-flops a bad idea
Charlie Crist wants to go to Cuba this summer, in the middle of his campaign to get elected governor of Flo...
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In My Opinion
Scott takes deep dive into climate change
(Rejected first draft of Gov. Rick Scott’s position on climate change).
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In My Opinion
Carl Hiaasen: Cruel and unusual ways of execution
No species in nature kills its own kind more often or more creatively than humans do, yet we cannot seem to...
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In My Opinion
Corps deals death blow to ’Glades plan
Just when there seemed to be a glimmer of hope for the Everglades, along comes the lumbering U.S. Army Corp...
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In My Opinion
First, do no harm — to your bank account
After being sued by the Wall Street Journal, the government finally released its Medicare reimbursement dat...
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: I once worked for Casey Kasem
He remembered everything about that night.
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In my opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: The list of things I don’t remember getting longer
I am standing at the front door, locked out of my own house. If this were a movie, it’d be raining. ...
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: In fight against Boko Haram, aroused public makes a difference
How about some good news for a change?
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: NRA retreats after rare attack of lucidity
A few days ago, the NRA inadvertently said something reasonable.
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In My Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Faith cannot be coerced
In a prison in Khartoum, a dusty city on the banks of the ancient Nile in the African nation of Sudan, Meri...
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In My Opinion
Romney’s guilt-free pass to Independents
TAMPA — Tin Man didn’t morph into a cuddly teddy bear at his Republican National Coronation, ...
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In My Opinion
The pitiful story of Newark’s school system
Samuel Johnson called second marriages the triumph of hope over experience. When an Internet billionaire an...
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IN MY OPINION
Glenn Garvin: Super Bowl ads disturbingly delightful
I spent the entire Super Bowl hoping for an equipment malfunction and no, not on the how-the-hell-do...
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