Pink Slip

Hello again, dear reader. No doubt some of you are curious as to why I’ve been shirking my Yard Work duties for the past handful of months. As ombudsman for this storied institution, it is essential for me to retain a modicum of objectivity. Too much time spent in the trenches dulls the senses, turn […]

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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

Humidity has a way of getting to people. That’s a maxim to which anyone who has spent quality time loitering around a Dade County correctional facility — or a Dade County condominium sales office — will attest. And indeed, the moist horror that this summer has become has touched even myself. Though I prefer to […]

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Enter the Groundskeeper

There’s something that you learn early on when you begin working at a news publication: journalism is about facts. And facts, as President Reagan attempted to recall, are stubborn things. Baseball is also about facts: balls and strikes, runs and outs, wins and losses. When you traffic in a large number of facts, you are […]

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