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Ileana’s retirement: The end of a cycle
Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced that she won't seek reelection in 2018. Her retirement marks the end of a cycle characterized by the access of the first generation…
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Ros-Lehtinen calling it quits next year
Stating that "there was no epiphany," and after almost three decades in the U.S. Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced that she will call it quits next year. Ros-Lehtinen was first…
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And the rich keep getting richer
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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The two sides of the coin
When I read the news that the Republicans have a plan that will result in 52 million Americans losing their health insurance by 2026, I was struck by panic. Old age is inevitable;…
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Poor Little Marco
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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Miami is not a sanctuary city, writes judge, but America is a sanctuary country
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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Once estranged, they reunite over a White House meal with Cuba on the menu
President Trump broke bread with Senator Marco Rubio this week. It was a strange change of events when one considers that during the presidential primaries, then-candidate Trump and…
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The Ugly American[i] on his throne
Last week Donald Trump launched his version of the Manhattan Project against the U.S. Constitution. This week he went after allies. His stupidity lies in the fact that both the Mexican…
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Ab-normalization: Florida imposes sanctions on itself
When Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus folded its tent last month, 400 Floridians lost their jobs. Now, Florida's Governor Rick Scott appears determined to turn his state's…
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Long before Obama, bridges to Cuba were being built
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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