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A reader reacts to Rigondeaux caricature
A reader reacted to the recently published caricature of the Guillermo Rigondeaux fight, where in a strange turn of events the Cuban boxer did not come out in the seventh round in a…
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More than 231,000 Puerto Ricans have migrated to Florida so far
CBS Correspondent David Bergnaud generated a Twitterstorm when he picked up on a small item from the Division of Emergency Management. He tweeted that more than 231,000 Puerto Ricans…
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Savage state
The state of Florida has been quietly carrying out a policy of deliberate medical neglect toward imprisoned felons infected with hepatitis C. That policy, in its inhumanity and lack of…
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Hucksters in paradise
Florida real estate used to be sold by men and women who’d offer northerners a piece of paradise by the beach that turned out to be swampland in the Everglades, where if you survived…
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‘Money over love’ for these four
The expression “selling your sold to the devil” seems appropriate when talking of south Florida members of congress Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Curbelo and to a lesser extent…
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Climate change threatens 1 in 4 natural heritage sites
A report released during the U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, warns that climate change imperils one in four natural World Heritage sites — nearly double the number from just three…
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Taking a step back to the future
Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, Carlos Curbelo, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen want to assure that they starve the Cuban people to death. They understand that healthy relations between our two…
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Florida nursing home tragedy NOT a who-done-it
The worst loss of human life in Florida in the wake of Irma didn’t happen on one of low-lying towns on the lower Florida Keys where the eye of the storm first made landfall with full…
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Governor Rick Scott enabled Irma’s fury through climate denialism
Florida Gov. Rick Scott did not cause Irma, but he enabled the Frankenstorm. Scott met with Carbonmongers Charles and David Koch soon after being elected, and all of a sudden Florida’s…
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More than Bob Menendez goes on trial this week
There’s more to the Menendez trial than a high ranking Democratic senator charged with corruption. A conviction could lead to his ouster from the Senate. New Jersey Governor Chris…
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