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Álvaro Fernández 378 posts 17 comments

This ain't Disneyland

Trumpcare’s a killer: Diaz Balart and Curbelo don’t care

Álvaro Fernández May 5, 2017
Backers of Trumpcare don’t care whether you live or die. Add two south Florida names to the list of the members of Congress who don’t care: U.S. Representatives Mario Diaz Balart and…
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Florida

And the rich keep getting richer

Álvaro Fernández Apr 26, 2017
The news is that Jeffrey Loria will soon sell the Miami Marlins. The buyers are a team of investors put together by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and retired Yankees great, soon to…
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Noticias Secundarias

Some ask why more people don’t vote

Álvaro Fernández Apr 24, 2017
Why are voters participating less and less in our democratic process? People are in fact fed up with lying and cheating politicians whose only interest seems to be themselves. Are there…
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This ain't Disneyland

Ros-Lehtinen to face challenger(s) next year

Álvaro Fernández Apr 14, 2017
Now there are two. Scott Fuhrman was the first to announce his intention. And this week Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez also informed that in 2018 she plans to challenge…
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This ain't Disneyland

‘A time comes when silence is betrayal’

Álvaro Fernández Apr 10, 2017
50 years ago last week, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech at the Riverside Church in Harlem against the war in Vietnam that may have sealed his fate. Known as the 'Beyond…
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Noticias

Eight years of Republican bluster and bluff fail to undo Obamacare

Álvaro Fernández Mar 26, 2017
Eight years. That’s the amount of time Republicans had to come up with a better plan to replace the one President Barack Obama presented and passed. Instead, the Affordable Health Care…
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Florida

Poor Little Marco

Álvaro Fernández Mar 8, 2017
The junior senator from Florida is in a bind these days. Nobody seems to want him — in their office buildings. We’re already at two — offices in Tampa and Jacksonville — who have told…
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This ain't Disneyland

Ileana, Marco, Curbelo and Mario: Crippled Trump enablers

Álvaro Fernández Mar 7, 2017
Pretend for a minute that we’re back to 2013 and President Obama has just won his second term in office. The news media is saturated with the strong possibility that several Obama…
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Florida

Miami is not a sanctuary city, writes judge, but America is a sanctuary country

Álvaro Fernández Mar 3, 2017
In a ruling rebuking the cowardly performance of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez and nine county commissioners, Judge Milton Hirsch sided with the basic rights of a human being and…
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Florida

Long before Obama, bridges to Cuba were being built

Álvaro Fernández Jan 27, 2017
Bridge builders to Cuba have been around since the 1960s. There are differences between these early engineers of peaceful dialogue and those that are being heralded today. Surely,…
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