• Mary Sanchez: Latinos are now the largest minority group in the nation. For readers, Anglo and Hispanic, it is important that newspapers offer clear insights as America deals with, absorbs or fights this demographic shift. Columnist Mary Sanchez does just that. The daughter of a Mexican immigrant, Sanchez seeks to inform, not inflame issues.
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• Joe Galloway: Nobody knows and understands the military like Joseph L. Galloway does. One of America's pre-eminent war correspondents, Galloway writes about both military and national security issues -- and the people behind them. In his column, you hear the voices of sergeants and of generals, talking about everything from bad chow to good strategy.
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• Mitch Albom. Universally acknowledged as the best sports columnist in the United States over the last decade, Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press is also the author of a best-selling book - "Tuesdays With Morrie" - and host a popular nationally syndicated daily radio show. His weekly op-ed columns offer unique views on various slices of life.
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• Best of Dave Barry. Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald. His legendary columns have appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. He has written several books, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988.
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• Dr. Mitchell W. Hecht is the physician-author of "Ask Dr. H," a weekly Q&A medical column distributed by MCT. Dr. Hecht's goal is to present medical information that is clear and interesting to non-medical people.
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• Carl Hiaasen. Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen delights in needling the land developers, corrupt officials and the corrupt-wannabes of South Florida. He is author of several humorous novels, including "Tourist Season" and "Strip Tease," which came out as a movie in 1996.
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• Jim Mateja is a renowned name in the automotive media field and has been writing about cars and the industry for nearly 40 years. The first car he reviewed was the Ford Pinto, after becoming the Chicago Tribune's automotive writer in 1970. Mateja has won numerous awards and was the founding president of the Midwest Automotive Media Association. He is the author of the book "Used Cars: Finding the Best Buys."
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• Home-Do-It: Gene Austin says he became a do-it-yourselfer "by necessity" some 40 years ago when he bought his first house, a fixer-upper that needed a lot of work. Over the last 20 years, he has helped thousands of other weekend warriors through his home-improvement column.
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• Ross Mackenzie: Veteran newspaper writer and editorial page editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Ross Mackenzie offers insightful commentary about current events in one of the most stimulating, no-baloney styles in American journalism. His topics range wide - from cancer to space, from a blessedly distant view of the Beltway scene to the explosion of spring in the forest where he lives.
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• Andres Oppenheimer is a foreign correspondent and a member of the Miami Herald team that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of "Castro's Final Hour," "Bordering on Chaos," on Mexico's crisis, "Cronicas de heroes y bandidos" and "Ojos Vendados."
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• Leonard Pitts Jr. is a nationally distributed MCT columnist whose poignant perceptions about racial and political issues appear in newspapers all over the country.
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• Poker. Chicago Tribune sportswriter Steve Rosenbloom delivers insight and strategy in his weekly poker column. He goes straight to the experts for the thinking behind the trickiest and most troublesome plays.
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• Steve Rosen helps parents teach their kids to become money-savvy. His column, Kids and Money, offers advice, teaching techniques and personal observations on a range of topics that's helpful for kids in preschool through college - as well as their parents.
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• Ana Veciana-Suarez is an award-winning columnist for The Miami Herald who writes about family, education, women's and social issues. She is the author of two books, "The Chin Kiss King" and "Birthday Parties in Heaven: Thoughts on Love, Life, Grief, and Other Matters of the Heart."
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