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The Cuban-American hard-line bravado banishes into thin air
That sorry bunch, the Cuban Mafia or the Cuban Con Artists, call them what you will, were left out of the conversation because their intention was to prevent any conversation, or even…
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Aruca was right and they were wrong
El Nuevo Herald published an interesting column recently written by Jorge Dávila Miguel titled Fuerza Aérea Uno, which deals with next week's trip to Cuba by President Obama. We added a…
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Radioactive stuff polluting Miami’s Biscayne Bay
A study released last week found levels of the radioactive isotope tritium in bay water at levels 215 times normal. This poses a threat not just to the ecology of the bay and its…
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The shattering: The GOP in Florida and the nation
The Republican party is imploding. They sense this and are anguished. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.
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Blame yourselves
The "establishment" of the Republican Party is going nuts. Donald Trump is leading a hostile takeover of their party and they don't know what do to about it.
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Shameless in Tallahassee
There's a battle brewing between the Florida House and Senate over how to use the $1 billion budget surplus. Then there's Gov. Rick Scott who wants to dole it out as tax breaks to rich…
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Culture and the cult of the rich
Miami is the metropolitan area with the highest level of economic inequality in a nation that leads the developed nations in inequality. You would then imagine that all money available…
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Florida: Foul water, fouler politics
Earlier this year, the Florida legislature approved and Gov. Rick Scott signed a new water law that wiped out a longstanding January 2015 deadline that mandated a radical reduction in…
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Dying for dollars
There is almost no end to the adjectives that could be used to describe the January 13 death in Miami of thirty-eight-year old Maria Huaman. Untimely. Tragic. Unnecessary.…
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Big business rules (and prospers) while the little guy suffers
In an age of climate change deniers, corporate welfare facilitating government riches for the one-percenters while our taxes are raised to pay for them, and lobbyists that assure the…
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