Florida

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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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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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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When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law,…
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In Miami, you get so used to reading about buildings that have stood for decades biting the dust to make way for our local deity — Development. The Church by the Sea has stood for…
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Outward perfection should not overpower the spiritual content of this joyful season. When one is far from his loved ones, one realizes that, of all the possible gifts, a love-filled hug…
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The Florida legislature instantly qualified for the hottest ring of hell when in 2011 it passed a law that transformed the state’s Children’s Medical Services program from one based on…
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Every night, before turning off the bedside lamp in the hostel where she has been sleeping for the past 20 days, Sofía rekindles her hopes, thinking that soon she will embrace Gaby,…
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Give the junior senator from Florida credit. It is his gift: a great ability to fabulate, convince others that his story is true, and then turn his tales into dollars.
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In South Florida, home to most of the 2 million émigrés from the Caribbean island, this mode of relating to one another became widespread. It is no secret that, beginning half a century…
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