Email Author Tristram Korten

2004 Stories by Tristram Korten

• Guns & Haiti

  published April 15, 2004

  In the sweltering hilltop town of Petionville, about ten miles above the congestion and cacophony of Port-au-Prince, people gathered on the... More >>

• Haiti, Miami, and Violent Rebellion

  published April 1, 2004

  The vodou appears to have worked. In Gonaives, a port town in northern Haiti where the armed insurrection began that ultimately forced President... More >>

• States of Denial

  published March 25, 2004

  The Miami Herald set off fireworks with its March 9 article headlined "Police secretly watching hip-hop artists," in which the paper... More >>

• Who's that Man Behind the Badge?

  published March 4, 2004

  Last week, at the University of Miami's Gusman Auditorium, Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas gave his final State of the County address. In this... More >>

• The Hard Fall

  published February 19, 2004

  In 1818 the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley published "Ozymandias of Egypt," which describes how a traveler in the desert stumbles upon the... More >>

• Deeply Digitally Divided

  published February 5, 2004

  The only space big enough to hold the crowd gathered at the e-Equality technology center on Biscayne Boulevard last week was the cavernous... More >>

• An Embarrassment of Audits

  published January 29, 2004

  Last month the Public Health Trust released an internal audit disclosing that it was stiffed $25 million by nonresident patients -- the majority... More >>

• Public War, Private Fight

  published January 15, 2004

  Miami's war on public corruption has spawned a private skirmish affecting two top law-enforcement agencies. Marcos Jimenez, U.S. Attorney for the... More >>

• Justice, One Page at a Time

  published January 8, 2004

  It's been nearly two years since ex-Miami-Dade Commissioner Miriam Alonso was arrested by police, which prompted Gov. Jeb Bush to boot her from... More >>