Art Basel and its satellite fairs have accelerated the rebirth of whole neighborhoods and affirmed the role that art plays in our lives.
A lmost everywhere that Miami Herald reporter Frances Robles and photographer John VanBeekum traveled along the southwest border with Mexico, they found the same ghost-town feel in what once were crowded villages built mostly on the illegal immigration trade.
At one level, it sounds like a very bad joke. In September, a safe-haven law took effect in the state of Nebraska allowing parents to leave their children at hospitals without fear of prosecution. This, as a means of saving the lives of unwanted newborns who would otherwise be left in garbage heaps and motel rooms or simply murdered outright. Nebraska was the last state in the union to pass such a law and unlike the other 49 states, it did not limit the ages of children that could be legally abandoned...
Fire and ire. That's what many opinion columnists in The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald inspire. When I wrote to slap the hand of El Nuevo's Adolfo Rivero Caro for being irresponsible with facts, many of you responded with passion about the freedom of op-ed columnists in both papers.
When Barack Obama meets Tuesday in Philadelphia with governors of both parties, an added dimension of the credit crisis and financial meltdown will come into focus. We have heard a lot about the collapse of housing prices, the threatened or actual bankruptcy of many banks and the rise in unemployment. Individuals, families and firms of all sizes have been clobbered by these events.
The Democrats face the possibility, however unlikely, of gaining a supermajority in the U.S. Senate -- but it all depends on how things shake out in Minnesota and Georgia.
On a cold January morning in 2001, Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., who was then the new secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was headed to his office in his limo when he saw some homeless people huddled on the vents of the steam tunnels that heat federal buildings.
We should be ashamed of how poorly we have treated President George W. Bush. That, believe it or not, is the thesis of a bizarre opinion published the day after the election in The Wall Street Journal by one Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, described as an investigative reporter, a lawyer and a former intern for, of all people, John Kerry. It's one of two rather eye-opening Journal pieces, actually; the second, following just days later, was by a former presidential aide named Jim Towey. Under the headline...
When President Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20, he will confront tough choices about how best to allocate his government's precious economic and diplomatic resources to pursue the legitimate interests of the United States in the world.
If you're like most Americans, you probably weren't dabbing tears from your eyes while listening to the woeful pleas of Richard Wagoner, Alan Mulally and Robert Nardelli.
Mauricio Claver-Carone is a director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC (www.uscubapac.com), was an attorney with the Department of the Treasury, and has served on the full-time faculty of The Catholic University of America's law school.
Marián Prío, a reader from Key Biscayne, was upset. She had just read a column in El Nuevo Herald, the newspaper of record for the substantial segment of South Florida that is Spanish dominant.
Camila Ruiz Gallardo is director of government relations for the Cuban American National Foundation. The word ''change'' seems to spark a range of diverse emotions in South Florida. For some, the word represents hope, an opportunity to adjust course with the goal of achieving a better outcome. For others, it evokes alarm, uncertainty, a rejection of past efforts. Merriam-Webster doesn't offer much help in its own definitions, which include: to alter as well as: to transform. So you can appreciate...
Joe Oglesby, editorial page editor of The Miami Herald, asked the question below of Vernon Jordan, former president of the National Urban League and a close advisor to former President Bill Clinton. Jordan currently is senior managing director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, an investment banking firm whose latest book is Make It Plain: Stand Up and Speaking Out (2008: Perseus Publishing; $24.95):
Ronnie Greene, The Miami Herald's Urban Affairs Editor, is the author of Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, And Margie Richard's Fight To Save Her Town (2008: HarperCollins/Amistad, $24.95). He will appear at the Book Fair on a panel with Dr. Jerry B. Brown, co-author of Freedom from Mid-East Oil (2007: World Business Academy, $24.95), to whom he posed this question:
Bridget Carey, a reporter on The Herald's business staff, writes about technology and reviews a new gadget every Tuesday in her 60-second video reviews. She also authors the tech blog, Cache & Carey, and Poked, a blog about social networking etiquette for the working world. She asked this of Steve Greenberg, author of Gadget Nation: A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention (2008: Sterling Publishing, $19.95):
William McGee, a copy editor at The Miami Herald, asked this question of Sister Souljah, the activist and hip hop-generation recording artist, film producer and author whose latest book is Midnight (2008: Atria, $26.96):
Jeff Kleinman is copy desk chief of The Miami Herald and writes about family issues at MomsMiami.com. He asked the following question of Alan Berger and David Patterson, authors of Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Drawing Honey from the Rock (2008: Paragon House, $19.95):
Elinor Brecher, The Miami Herald's obituary writer, is the author of Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors (Dutton, 1994). She asked this of Mildred Nitzberg, who with Marilyn Segal wrote I Chose Life (2008: AuthorHouse, $24.99). This was excerpted from a longer reply:
Marjie Lambert, The Miami Herald's assistant travel editor, has traveled to all 50 states and 16 countries. She asked this of Peter Greenberg, who wrote Don't Go There! The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World (2009: Rodale Press, $17.95):
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