Florida

By Brian Hamacher From NBCMiami.com Violent crime, poverty, low education rate and a crippled housing industry helped Miami reach the top spot in 24/7 Wall Street's first-annual list…
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Al’s Loupe Important charter amendments on Tuesday’s Miami-Dade ballot By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com Next Tuesday is a big day in Florida. On the 31st, the…
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By Alvaro F. Fernandez alvaro@progresoweekly.com So you’re a Miami Marlins fan. Two years down the line imagine they are playing great baseball and are battling for the playoffs;…
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Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com “Are GOP candidates playing the race card?” reads the headline to a January 9th article in the Washington Post. You might as well…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com So it’s Romney. Yes, the debates between the Republican presidential contenders left in the race – Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum,…
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By Ted Jackovics From The Tampa Tribune Nearly 50 years have passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis, but you wouldn't know it from rhetoric circulating in advance of the 2012 U.S.…
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By Michael LaForgia and Adam Playford From the Palm Beach Post The cables read like a political thriller: In the Dominican Republic, a "small, powerful coterie of infuriated sugar…
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By Nelson P. Valdés and Sue Ashdown “You have to figure out how you can reach the informed masses. The solution is not the newspapers... Internet is more accessible.” Fidel Castro,…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Sometimes a tempest-in-a-teapot brouhaha can reveal much about the tenor of a time, including the level of seriousness and rationality that…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Certainly the United States has endured more acute crises than the one the country is mired in today. But seldom, if ever, has the country…
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