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When the state does not care
Florida plans to turn over three million Medicaid clients currently served by the state to private sector “managed care” providers. The truth is that private companies have no secret…
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‘Roid’ rage
The culture in which we live promotes steroid use by constantly presenting a muscular masculine figure as ideal, even if the muscles look artificial. Anabolic steroids can cause…
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Big Sugar messes with Mother Nature
As long as we continue returning elected officials to office who accept political contributions from Big Sugar, we will continue getting what we always have gotten: Huge volumes of…
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‘The age of the library is probably ending’
About one-third of Miami-Dade libraries will be closed in a county with almost 2.5 million people and which were visited by 8 million people last year. And what's the county…
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Stand Your Ground supporters should favor special session
Half of Florida supports Stand Your Ground, 43% want it changed or repealed. But neither the majority of Floridians who support it nor the Stand Your Ground that a massive minority…
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Baseball and the Cuban heart
Leonardo Padura and Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera at bat. Progreso Weekly publishes reflections of two great Cubans, both fans of baseball and Cuba. They express views about the game that…
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Industriales will play in Miami, “even if it’s in a canebrake”
Alejandro Cantón, president of Somos Cuba , the Florida agency that promotes the match, told Progreso Weekly in an exclusive interview that the games will take place "even if it's in a…
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U.S. spends $24 million on ‘Propaganda Plane’ nobody can see or hear
"It's hard to believe we are still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jammed TV signal – that fewer than 1 percent of Cubans can see..." says Sen. Jeff Flake.
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Alvarez Guedes dies in Miami
Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, the Cuban comic who reduced a common expletive used often by Cubans to a simple ño!!, died in Miami at the age of 86.
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The homeless and public order
In today's Miami, the chairman of the City Commission, Marc Sarnoff, proposes jailing homeless people so they won't disturb "the public order." Local officials want to eliminate any…
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