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Guest AuthorFebruary 10, 2016

It’s been four years since the media broke the news of Darren Rainey’s brutal mistreatment at the Dade Correctional Institution in Miami. The 50-year-old Rainey was forced into a scalding shower by prison guards angry that the schizophrenic inmate defecated and threw feces at them and around his 13-by-8-foot cell. In retaliation, they forced Rainey […]

Jim RosicaNovember 24, 2015

Billionaire Jeff Greene‘s libel suit against the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald newspapers is still on after a court-ordered mediation in the case didn’t result in a settlement. Times attorney Alison Steele, a partner in the St. Petersburg law firm of Rahdert, Steele, Reynolds & Driscoll, told FloridaPolitics.com on Tuesday that Steele also has filed an amended complaint in […]

Marc YachtApril 28, 2014

Florida legislative efforts to increase charter schools continue. About one in 17 Florida children attend a charter school. That’s a six-fold increase in a decade. Both not-for-profit and for-profit companies can operate charter schools. School districts can open charter schools. Charter-school teachers must be certified, but administrators do not need to be certified. Proponents of […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 22, 2014

We meet at 11:30 a.m. on the third Monday of every month, this informal group of retired Miami Herald alums called the HACKS. We’re former editors, artists, reporters, refugees from a time past. What we have in common is long tenure at The Miami Herald and passion for a business that has changed profoundly over […]

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Chris Timmons: Fixing Florida’s prisons will take money, determination

Jeff Greene is continuing libel suit against Times, Herald

Marc Yacht: Florida charter school growth needs improved oversight

Doug Clifton: Fear the loss of newspapers; a healthy democracy depends on them