Those damn killjoys are at it again.  Drat! The City of Miami wants to construct a skateboard park on a parcel of land next door to the historic … [Read more...]

Christmas came four months early to a sweltering Florida last week. I feel like cuing up a particular song from The Wizard of Oz to describe how I … [Read more...]

WHEN:  Last weekend WHERE:  Panama City Beach, Fla. The First Family, here to boost the local tourism industry in the aftermath of the Gulf oil … [Read more...]

To a war-ravaged, landmine-strewn, impoverished country as Afghanistan – and its downtrodden, war-weary people – kind-hearted do-gooders the world … [Read more...]

Many journalists probably never saw this coming:  A 92,000-page mammoth of a read  suddenly supplanting their best beach book of the summer, … [Read more...]

Was it something I wrote, Mayor? You don’t think, do ya, that Carlos Alvarez might have had my column about him from a few weeks ago on his mind … [Read more...]

“The South shall rise again!” …If, that is, it ever can pull its fat gut out from the dinner table under which it’s wedged, and away from … [Read more...]

Lost in all the attention sucked up by Lindsay Lohan’s probation violation sentencing last week was an incident – from some weeks earlier – … [Read more...]

If public corruption, wrongdoing, impropriety – any of it – were to rear up and bite Carlos Alvarez on the hiney, or slap him upside his face, it … [Read more...]