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The Senate Flips Blue and a Coup Attempt in D.C. — Welcome 2021
There are moments in history that are so profound that they are forever etched in your memory. For me, they include the day the last soldier came home from Vietnam in 1973; the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded before my eyes during my first Read more
Jan. 07, 2021
9:46 a.m.
Ernesto Sempoll
Finding Joy During COVID-19
Fear is an old friend now. It’s something we used to attempt to live with or conquer in pre-pandemic days. Now it greets us every morning with the sun, like an evil Cheshire cat clawing at our brain. Read more
Jan. 04, 2021
10:38 a.m.
AP Photo/Craig Ruttle
No Grinch, Trump or Pandemic Can Stop Time
As I watch cable news in the throes of the holiday season, “bah humbug” comes to mind. As if the coronavirus surge wasn't enough – eliminating every possibility of spending time with family and friends – Donald Trump... Read more
Dec. 01, 2020
8:23 p.m.
Martin Karp for the Biscayne Times
The Story Behind the Names
I am one of those people who sees a picture on the wall in somebody’s house and walks over to straighten it out. Read more
Dec. 01, 2020
8:22 p.m.
Courtesy of Phoenix
COVID-19, School and Resilient Kids
My idea for a column was dashed. I expected kids to respond like adults to the COVID-19 pandemic. I thought they would be cowering in the corner of their closets crying or that they would be paying video games nonstop, sullen and boorish to their... Read more
Nov. 02, 2020
1:35 p.m.
Courtesy of Jim Mullin
It's Been a Privilege
The virus crisis has turned our world upside down, and as we recently noted in these pages, there’s no going back to life as we knew it just a few short months ago. Read more
Oct. 08, 2020
midnight
Get Your Mail-In Ballot Now
Let’s get my forecast out of the way: Trump will lose in Miami-Dade County but win in Florida, because Floridians are just that dumb. I will become an expat and I’m already looking at expat enclaves in Mexico. The area has to have good doctors. Read more
Oct. 08, 2020
midnight
