Bea L. Hines

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines

Somebody please explain to me why a mother of a nursing baby, whose husband is a U.S. citizen, was snatched from her family and sent back to Cuba. Or why a mother and her 4-year-old son with Stage 4 metastatic cancer — a U.S. citizen — were sent to Honduras, where the child most likely won’t get the treatment that could possibly save his life.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines

I am living at a time when I am attending more and more funerals of friends. Just recently, two longtime friends died only days apart. Ivey Kearson died April 8, and Marcia Johnson Martin Saunders died a few days later, on April 21. A litany service for Ivey was held last Monday, followed by a Celebration of Life on Tuesday at The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Liberty City, where he was a dedicated member. There was no written obituary in Ivey’s funeral program.

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Bea L. Hines

A few days ago, as I listened to the morning news, the news anchors warned that “panic” shopping could happen because of the rising cost of some food items and paper products. They noted that food items, like rice and coffee, could cost the American consumers more because of Trump-imposed tariffs.

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines

At 7 p.m. Monday, Sen. Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, started what would become the longest speech delivered from the floor of the U.S. Senate since Sen. Strom Thurmond’s filibuster opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker finished his speech at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, speaking 25 hours and 5 minutes. Thurmond, the fervent segregationist senator from South Carolina, spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes — 46 minutes less than Booker.