Florida faces increasing pressure from falling state revenues, and the Legislature is meeting in a special session to try to balance the budget. In the past year, the budget has been reduced by more than $4 billion. Additional cuts to programs and services must be made with care.
My partner and I went to see The Adding Machine at GableStage recently. Having usually been disappointed in the new musicals of the past 30 years, our hopes were not high. So we were shocked that we loved it.
When the Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board (CRB) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2003, Henry King Stanford made a special trip back to Miami to deliver the keynote address.
After the past eight years it is now clear why the Founding Fathers were concerned about religion's influence on government. It was not about the principles of any one religion, but about the heady illusion that any one party or person knows God's will.
Re Miami-Dade County Commission chair Dennis Moss' Jan. 3 letter A 'new day' for public transit in Miami-Dade: I sat on a grand jury in 2001 with 11 other jurors and three alternates. We studied Miami-Dade's transit system for six months. We heard testimony from several experts as to why our system was a mess. We studied the 1970s reports of the original urban plans.
The front page of the Jan. 4 Miami Herald was absolutely classic. Here we have a photograph of a Miami Dolp...
We hear so much these days about the human tragedy of foreclosures. What we don't hear is what happens to f...
Unless Dania Beach City Manager Ivan Pato broke the law or a major city rule, firing him nine days before h...
At Planned Parenthood, we know that abstinence-only programs are ineffective and put youth at risk. A recen...
In March 2007 I resigned as Special Assistant to President Bush. I did so a week before press reports discl...
Alvah Chapman no longer is with us, but he leaves behind a powerful legacy. Many in this community were for...
We have spent, and will continue to spend, billions of dollars to right the economy. But all of the money i...
If the United States can invade Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein and Afghanistan to topple the Taliban, why ca...
Another pedestrian was killed recently on Federal Highway in the Hollywood/Dania Beach area. A man in a whe...
Kudos to The Miami Herald for its profile of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos in Guatemala (NPH) (Job trai...
The U.S. auto industry was not responsible for the sudden increase in the cost of gas that caused buyers to...
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