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Curbelo succumbs to pressure and votes against his constituents
When I read Rep. Carlos Curbelo’s op-ed piece in the Miami Herald last week I knew the south Florida legislator from congressional district 26 was worried about his chances in next…
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Trumpcare’s a killer: Diaz Balart and Curbelo don’t care
Backers of Trumpcare don’t care whether you live or die. Add two south Florida names to the list of the members of Congress who don’t care: U.S. Representatives Mario Diaz Balart and…
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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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Some ask why more people don’t vote
Why are voters participating less and less in our democratic process? People are in fact fed up with lying and cheating politicians whose only interest seems to be themselves. Are there…
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Ros-Lehtinen to face challenger(s) next year
Now there are two. Scott Fuhrman was the first to announce his intention. And this week Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez also informed that in 2018 she plans to challenge…
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‘A time comes when silence is betrayal’
50 years ago last week, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech at the Riverside Church in Harlem against the war in Vietnam that may have sealed his fate. Known as the 'Beyond…
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Our dishonest president
In much less than the first 100 days of his presidency Trump has managed to lie his way into creating a state of unrest in the United States not seen since the days of Richard Nixon. An…
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Eight years of Republican bluster and bluff fail to undo Obamacare
Eight years. That’s the amount of time Republicans had to come up with a better plan to replace the one President Barack Obama presented and passed. Instead, the Affordable Health Care…
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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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Ileana, Marco, Curbelo and Mario: Crippled Trump enablers
Pretend for a minute that we’re back to 2013 and President Obama has just won his second term in office. The news media is saturated with the strong possibility that several Obama…
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