<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports</title><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Television Stations Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:56:24 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Crist Anti-Corruption Plan Bad Theater ]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/governor.charlie.crist.2.1253188.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/governor.charlie.crist.2.1253188.html</link><description><![CDATA[This week Charlie Crist announced that he was petitioning the Florida Supreme Court to empanel a grand jury to investigate corruption throughout the state. As political theater goes, the governor's press conference was rather pedestrian. There was no flare in the performance. No show-stopping moments. If he really wanted to sell the idea that he was angry about the recent spate of corruption across the Sunshine State, he needed to do something dramatic. Pound his fist on the podium or flip over a table like a New Jersey housewife.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:52:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Anger Rules The Day In Miami-Dade]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.carlos.alvarez.2.1182486.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.carlos.alvarez.2.1182486.html</link><description><![CDATA[I've read the polls. I've heard the anger. I'm convinced. Let's spend the next three to six months, gathering signatures and holding a special election to recall County Mayor Carlos Alvarez.Sure it will end up costing taxpayers a lot more than the $90,000 in raises he handed out to a dozen employees on his staff, but damnit, people are frustrated and they need someone to blame. So I'm with you, let's recall Carlos Alvarez. Then what? 
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:25:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Crist Appoints Old Pal to Senate]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.column.lemieux.2.1150396.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.column.lemieux.2.1150396.html</link><description><![CDATA[Charlie Crist's choice of longtime friend and political confidante George Lemieux to replace Mel Martinez in the United States Senate is one of the most stunning acts of political patronage in recent memory.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:20:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Soap Opera Looms In School Chief's Trial]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/randy.acevedo.acevedo.2.1140815.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/randy.acevedo.acevedo.2.1140815.html</link><description><![CDATA[A storm is heading for Key West this week unlike any residents of this town have seen for some time. On Monday, as children throughout the Florida Keys head off for the first day of school, jury selection will begin in the public corruption trial of Monroe County School Superintendent Randy Acevedo. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:22:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Martinez's Choice To Resign Not Difficult]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.martinez.politics.2.1119081.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.martinez.politics.2.1119081.html</link><description><![CDATA[Mel Martinez's decision to resign his Senate seat with more than a year
left in his term follows the same thinking that led to his earlier
decision not to seek a second term. As I wrote back in December when
Martinez announced he wasn't interested in running for re-election, the
Cuban-American Republican has always been a reluctant Senator.
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:43:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Marco Rubio's Long Road]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.marco.rubio.2.1117281.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.marco.rubio.2.1117281.html</link><description><![CDATA[On paper, Marco Rubio is everything the Republican Party would seem to
be looking for &#150; a smart, young, charismatic Cuban American who could
help win back Latinos at a time when the party is demographically
moving toward Whig-status. But can he beat Charlie Crist in the race for Florida's open U.S. Senate seat? <br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:19:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: A Premature Gang Curtain Call]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.column.gang.2.1109841.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.column.gang.2.1109841.html</link><description><![CDATA[The numbers appeared impressive. A fifteen month operation, resulting in 53 arrests breaking up the activities of eight violent street gangs in North Miami Beach. It even had a cool sounding name: Operation Dead End. But was this really a major blow to gangs in North Dade?]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:59:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Mass Shooting, Dead Cats, and MJ - Oh My]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.web.column.2.1078889.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.web.column.2.1078889.html</link><description><![CDATA[At some point the police are going to have to solve one of these mass
shootings. If nothing else, the law of averages will have to start
working in their favor. After all, how many times can someone spray a
crowd with bullets and not be held accountable?<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:51:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Why I Hate Miami-Dade 311]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.column.commentary.2.1017487.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.column.commentary.2.1017487.html</link><description><![CDATA[Who do I see to get back the 45 minutes of my life I just wasted dealing with Miami-Dade's 311 system? I hate 311. I've hated it from the moment it was put into existence several years ago. It is bureaucracy run amok. If Dante added a tenth Circle of Hell to his Divine Comedy it would involve calling the county's 311 system. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 11:28:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DeFede: Remembering Father Jean-Juste]]></title><guid>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.jean.juste.2.1022579.html</guid><link>http://cbs4.com/defedecolumn/defede.jean.juste.2.1022579.html</link><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste battled leukemia but had made a full
recovery. He was contemplating a return to Haiti but on March 8 was
admitted into Jackson Memorial Hospital complaining of trouble
breathing.&nbsp; Two
weeks ago, the Catholic priest and tireless activist for the Haitian people suffered a massive stroke
and ultimately died Wednesday evening.
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:33:13 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>