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Captured photographer to UM students: You must have passion to tell the story

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Erica Del Riego - Apr. 14 (Interview) - Photojournalist Joseph Raedle knew the risk he was taking when he arrived in Libya on March 18. As a veteran war correspondent, Raedle, 45, had spent two years documenting the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Business fights Obama's fix for sick corporate pensions

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Kevin G. Hall - Mar. 08 (News Report) - State and local government pensions aren't the only ones in trouble. Corporate pensions, too, are woefully underfunded, and the federal agency that insures them against losses is facing a dangerous deficit that taxpayers may end up covering. One government watchdog agency says the federal insurance funds are at "high risk" of failure. Moreover, the Obama administration's proposal to fix this is meeting stiff resistance from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business interests.

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In J'accuse of PolitiFact, Rachel Maddow misleads about how she misleads

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Naked Politics - By Marc Caputo - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - MSNBC talk-show host Rachel Maddow got worked up Thursday over a PolitiFact ruling that said this Feb. 17 statement of hers was false: “Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year.”

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Hellish home refinancing nears bleak conclusion

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Toluse Olorunnipa - Nov. 21 (News Report) - All she wanted was $50,000 from the equity in her house to help pay the bills while looking for a job in nursing. What Imogene Hall got was a brutal lesson in the sometimes shady ways of the mortgage industry. It's a lesson learned by untold numbers of

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Crist blasts GOP leaders for `sham' audit

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:18:25 -0700

Miami Herald - Sep. 19 - Gov. Charlie Crist lashed out at Florida Republican Party leaders Saturday over ``a sham'' internal audit that suggested party donors may have funded personal vacations and expenses for him and his family. But his hastily called news conference raised

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Would raising taxes on the rich help or hurt the U.S. economy?

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Kevin G. Hall - Sep. 13 (News Report) - Would raising taxes on the rich help or hurt the US economy?MiamiHerald.comCongress will soon begin debating whether to extend some or all of the Bush administration tax cuts.

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A yacht holds the secrets: Sexcapades or Sabbath?

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:32:02 -0700

Miami Herald - Aug. 13 - tool goes here FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo, Florida Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene addresses the Florida Press Association and FSNE annual meeting in Sarasota, Fla. In the midst of one of the worst recessions in decades, a host

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Shift to center helping Crist keep fragile lead - Political Currents

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:18:43 -0700

Miami Herald - Jul. 30 - USA TodayShift to center helping Crist keep fragile leadMiamiHerald.comAfter leaving the Republican Party before the US Senate primary, Gov. Charlie Crist's strategy of veering to the political left has given him ...New Q Poll: Crist leads Rubio, 37-32Orlando SentinelGovernor Surges Into LeadThe LedgerCrossing the RubioconWorld MagazineSun-Sentinel?-Palm Beach Post?-WOKVall 192 news articles??

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Public Insight Journalism

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:26:57 -0700

Miami Herald - Jul. 29 -

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Case for immigration reform remains strong

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - Jul. 04 (Editorial) - Politically and in other ways, President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush are polar opposites. But in his earnest plea for reform of the nation's immigration laws last week, the current chief executive sounded a lot like his immediate predecessor.

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Out of the ruins, a new role for Haitian women

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Jacqueline Charles - Jul. 04 (News Report) - Cendra Guillaume walks into the dusty depot of manly machines, passes fellow female workers, and steps into the front office with a familiar look of determination. Not one to sit around and wait, the wife, mother and heavy equipment operator gets right to the point: ``Where to today?'' In the months since the Haiti earthquake claimed an estimated 300,000 lives, women like Guillaume have been on the front lines of paving the way for this broken nation's reconstruction. Theirs are the anonymous hands that steered the dead and dying to unmarked graves in black and white government dump trucks, tunneled through the rubble for foreign rescue teams and cleared debris from hundreds of blocked roads.

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The rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Steven Thomma - May. 03 (News) - Is George W. Bush about to start a political comeback? Written off as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history when he left office, the 63-year-old Bush has been keeping a low profile, fading from view as the country turned its attention to his successor, President Barack Obama. Now, some events might be turning in Bush's favor just as he and his family emerge to tell their side of the story, first with the release last week of Laura Bush's memoir, Spoken From the Heart, then in November with the release of his book, Decision Points. ``The rehab's well under way,'' said Mark MacKinnon, a Bush confidant who still bikes with the former president in Texas.

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Making immigration work

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:09:13 -0700

Miami Herald - Apr. 14 (Editorial) - For advocates of immigration reform, the first year of President Obama's tenure has been a huge disappointment. It made sense to tackle the economy and healthcare reform first, but the administration has no excuse for failing to change unfair and mean-spirited immigration programs under executive control.

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Many schools outside Port-au-Prince reopening

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Kathleen McGrory - Feb. 01 (News Report) - In what is both a symbolic return to normalcy and a paramount step in the future transformation of Haiti, schools outside Port-au-Prince will hold class Monday -- the first time since last month's catastrophic earthquake.

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Lesbian Couple Adoption Approved By Miami Court | SouthFloridaGayNews.com

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Carol Marbin Miller - Jan. 27 (News Report) - With the blessing of her large extended family, Vanessa Alenier took custody of an infant relative who had been seized by child welfare workers. She moved him into a yellow nursery with a blond wood crib, a blue-striped carpet and a mobile. When she asked the state to for permission to adopt him, the application included a simple question. Are you gay? Alenier, 34, said she did not want to begin her journey as a parent with a lie. So she told the truth -- despite Florida's 33-year-old law banning gay men and lesbians from adopting. Earlier this month -- as a Miami appeals court determines the constitutionality of the embattled adoption ban -- a judge quietly approved the 1-year-old's adoption. The decision by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia is the third finalized adoption by a gay couple within the last year.

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Ruling a third strike against Florida's gay adoption ban - Miami-Dade

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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Tensions mount as patience wanes

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Jacqueline Charles, Trenton Daniel, Frances Robles, Daniel Chang - Jan. 16 (News Report) - Help began to trickle in, but most of the desperate populace had yet to receive relief. Western towns remained devastated and isolated, and Dominicans braced for refugees. Relief efforts struggled to get food, water and medicine to the hardest hit areas of the island on Friday, as security deteriorated amid a government vacuum and world leaders pledged more aid and personal visits to this devastated nation. There were reports of some looting in the capital, even as the U.S. military assumed control of the airport and helicopters airlifted supplies from a carrier off the coast. Evans Paul, former mayor of Port-au-Prince, summed up Haiti's two most urgent needs: ``We need rescue and security,'' he said. With the USS Carl Vinson stationed in the bay of Port-au-Prince, the commander of the U.S. military relief effort said personnel and supplies were moving into the country, though their distribution was hampered by impassible roads and a desperate population.

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Rescuing Haiti

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - Jan. 15 (Editorial) - Haiti's long-suffering people can't seem to catch a break. Just as signs of recovery appeared after a series of destructive storms and years of political upheaval, the earthquake that pummeled Haiti Tuesday inflicted incalculable damage and killed or maimed thousands. Among the prominent victims is the Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Msgr. Joseph Serge Miot, found dead in the ruins of his office.

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Security in Haiti deteriorates as fresh aid arrives

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:32:48 -0800

Miami Herald - Jan. 15 - PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Security was deteriorating in Port-au-Prince Friday even as fresh waves of emergency supplies were arriving in the shattered nation. The U.N. World Food Program said Friday that its warehouses in the capital had been looted and didn't

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Haiti president describes `unimaginable' catastrophe after earthquake

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Jacqueline Charles, Carol Rosenberg, Jean Cyril Pressoir, Luisa Yanez - Jan. 13 (News Report) - "This is a catastrophe," the first lady, Elisabeth Préval, said. "I'm stepping over dead bodies. A lot of people are buried under buildings. The general hospital has collapsed. We need support. We need help. We need engineers."

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Court records reveal trouble at Turkey Point

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By John Dorschner - Jan. 04 (News Report) - When Coleen Ware walked into Turkey Point, she was shocked to see that the indicators showing control rod positions looked like something out of an early '70s sci-fi movie. On special assignment from the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations to teach managers of the South Dade plant about safety, she was surprised by the aged indicators, which show the position of the rods in the reactor core

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Making the case for more troops

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - Nov. 30 (Editorial) - When President Barack Obama discloses his long-awaited decision on Afghanistan in a televised speech to the nation Tuesday night, he will be attempting a political feat that has eluded his predecessors: rallying public opinion behind a war that is fast losing public support.

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Florida coalition targets pending federal pollution rules

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Curtis Morgan - Nov. 23 (News Report) - The target: A settlement a federal judge in Tallahassee approved last week in a lawsuit brought by five environmental groups against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It requires that federal regulators, for the first time, step in and set a state's water quality standards for nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus that flow into waterways from fertilized lawns, sewage plants, farms fields, cattle pastures and a host of other sources.

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Love, honor ... and blog: Musings on marriage are surprise hit - Love & Relationships

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Ana Veciano-Suarez - Oct. 14 (News) - Couple in Miami is finding surprise success in blogging about happiness.

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Women getting short end of health coverage

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By David Lightman - Oct. 07 (Special Report) - Women of child-bearing age routinely pay more for healthcare because they're women. If they're pregnant, they can be legally denied coverage. Women face other problems in today's insurance market: They tend to need more preventive care and therefore are subject to more co-pays and deductibles, and single heads of households are often women, meaning they're responsible for the family's healthcare bills. Legislation now being considered by Congress to overhaul America's healthcare system would dramatically change the rules, and there's general agreement that this is a problem that needs fixing.

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