Our Better Late Than Never Award goes to last week’s Transportation Planning Organization vote to revamp the Miami Downtown Transportation Master Plan to meet current and future needs. That’s a…
A plan to tally Miami-Dade’s affordable housing needs impresses us, but we question what assumptions will shape the results. County Commissioner René Garcia’s detailed proposal reported on Miami Today’s front…
Miami-Dade signed away naming rights for its arena on Biscayne Boulevard too fast, with too little transparency into sponsor Kaseya or by the administration to commissioners. The haste to OK…
If you didn’t know what some Miami-Dade County legislation was all about you’d never learn by reading it. That’s not because it’s poorly written but because it’s purposely evasive. On…
Memo to Florida legislators: minor league baseball players aren’t minor league human beings. In fact, folks, in the United States there are no minor league human beings. All of us…
Legislators’ reactionary support of symbols of the Confederacy is yet another heavy-handed incursion into local government, shutting out concerns of every Florida community by centralizing control in Tallahassee. The latest…
What’s more bizarre than last week’s county commission order that the mayor thoroughly report the time she and staff spend filling commission orders to her to make thorough reports? The…
Miami-Dade commissioners have long sought more local county buying. A small vendor academy that opened March 1 is a welcome step to achieve that. A far bigger step would be…
Community news isn’t just local: some has broad, even national, implications. Our report last week on a meeting to revamp Miami Beach’s 41st Street should resonate wherever government decides what…
School used to be fun before kids became political pawns. Nobody but the teacher (and our parents) spied over our shoulder at what we were reading. And their aim was…
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