Opinion

I suppose it’s true what they say that “the more things change the more they stay the same.” Such is the case at The Miami Herald. With elections just weeks away in Honduras and the…
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Loved a recent entry in the Miami Herald’s Cuban Colada blog where reporter Renato Perez Pizarro writes that “A Republican Party consultant who works in Washington, Blakeman stopped…
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As reported by the South Florida Business Journal in their Friday, October 30 edition, it seems one of our area’s distinguished members of congress (well, really his wife in this case…
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There is good news. Boston developer Dennis Stackhouse, accused of stealing nearly $1 million from a proposed taxpayer-supported biopharmaceutical park intended to revitalize Liberty…
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In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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  You know there is a problem in this country when there are schools complaining that school children should NOT have to listen to the president of the United States. Right here in…
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  Last week I mentioned the possibility of Crist picking himself or having the new governor pick him to succeed Mel Martinez as the junior senator from Florida after resigning his post…
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What if Mel Martinez resigns later this month? He is then followed by a Florida Governor Charlie Crist resignation, making Lieutenant Governor Jeff Kottkamp the new governor of Florida.…
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I just received this press release from the Brennan Center. Together with Advancement Project, a civil rights organization out of Washington, D.C., I’ve been lucky to work closely with…
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One of the area’s master manipulator of information, the man who serves (or served) the U.S.’ three letter agency in Spain, Carlos Alberto Montaner is at it again. An intelligent man,…
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