Manny Garcia

Miami Man Offers Burials at Sea for $500

Burials at Sea: The Real Story Behind Miami's Craziest Van Advertisement

A white '80s Dodge Ram work van idles near the public boat ramp at Dinner Key Marina in Coconut Grove. The ride has no windows, giving it a Silence of the Lambs vibe. Strapped to the roof is a crude homemade sign that owner Eugene "Jobie" Steppe stenciled with a striking advertisement: "FULL BODY BU ... More >>

The Miami Herald's Weird History

One Herald Plaza: Thanks for the Memories

Close to 1,000 former Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald staffers descended on One Herald Plaza Wednesday afternoon. Reporters. Advertising executives. Printing-press mechanics. Bookkeepers. Publishers. Janitors. They all came to pay their final respects to the place that has defined journalism in thi ... More >>

Republican Univision Debate: Fear, Not Rubio, the Driving Factor

Five Republican candidates -- iincluding Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry -- have pulled out of a Univision debate in January. Why? Allegedly it is because of a comment the head of the blockbuster Spanish language channel's made to Florida Sen Marco Rubio's people attempting to blackmail him ... More >>

Mindy Marques: Savior of the Miami Herald

​More than two decades ago, I sat down to work in a sterile office in Doral, and a young woman next to me began swearing like a sailor. "Coño," she said louder than any office voice I had ever heard. "This salad sucks."Mindy Marques Gonzalez was the little sister to a bunch of determined newspape ... More >>

Is Race an Issue in SoFla Newspaper Layoffs/Departures?

I've just learned that three old friends are leaving South Florida's daily newspapers: one-time Miami bureau chief David Cazares and columnist Ralph De La Cruz are moving on from the Sun-Sentinel....and editorial page editor Joe Oglesby is retiring from the Miami Herald. That's on top of editor Mann ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalHerald Metro editor Manny Garcia has been tapped to take over El Nuevo Herald. [Pulp]Mindy Marques will take over some of his duties, and more editors are expected to lose there jobs soon. [Pulp]Taking an unconstitutional passage out of the Marlins stadium deal makes you a segregation ... More >>

Herald Layoffs Detailed

Crash Dummy

Unions glom onto the DeFede legacy

Terror Alert, Miami Style

Clandestine meetings and a hungry press

Press Pass and a Gas Mask

Embedded reporters made the military look good in Iraq, but did they do the same for Miami cops?

Riptide

Home on the Glades

For the Cuban cowboys of west Miami-Dade, restoring the Everglades means destroying their way of life

Deep Inside the Scandal

Howard Gary discusses OPERATION GREENPALM, the ambitious corruption investigation rattled by mismanagement and blown apart by astonishing leaks of secret information

The Next Wave

A dedicated group of Latin Americans breaks the sound barrier with rock en espanol