Miami-Dade County finally has the real smart plan for transit in place and operating. It’s vital. No, I don’t mean the formal Smart Plan, which is supposed to add six…
Suddenly, Miami-Dade has become a national beacon of shrinking unemployment and rising wages, seemingly a cushy featherbed for the new CEO of our economic development organization when he enters the…
Despite a widely professed belief that people from big cities across the nation are caught in a magnet pull to South Florida, it just ain’t so. Just the opposite. New…
When Miami commissioners voted to rape the landscape by allowing monstrous ad signs throughout downtown on every government property, it created a perfect opportunity for Mayor Francis Suarez to become…
It took 10 ballots, but Miami finally took the right path and allowed democracy to prevail by electing a fifth commissioner to fill a vacancy. The commission had been deadlocked…
After the passing of Harvey Ruvin, a 54-year elected official whose extraordinary scorecard shows universal praise for service and zero detractors, the community’s task today is not to replace him…
What’s the most visible embarrassment that government here both caused and can still easily erase? As we start a new year, we seek low-hanging fruit to make big personal improvements…
Hail the guts and creativity of those who start businesses – which are almost entirely small businesses, our economic backbone. Despite the media spotlight on billionaire moguls like Elon Musk,…
Language, race, and birthplace are pivotal in public policy in Miami-Dade County, though they are often unspoken decision-making yardsticks in a world focused on political correctness. But while these factors…
The US Census Bureau last week pulled back the curtain on reams of data gathered last year that fill in the facts on trends that most of us are vaguely…
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