Will county buy the best at the lowest prices? Good luck!
Just when we thought Miami-Dade County’s buying of goods and services couldn’t be any more bureaucratic and wasteful, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has ordered county officials to skew buying further…
Why can’t our transit trust get the facts on county’s plans?
A Mount Vesuvius of frustration erupted last week as the trust that helps fund a transit expansion known as the Smart Plan lamented that it couldn’t learn about how our…
Miami makes a towering mistake in splintering its assets
Handing a theater to one commissioner to run under his private team of city-paid workers expands a perilous trend that goes beyond the Miami City Commission’s 3-2 vote to let…
One town balances public and private needs; who else will?
We pleaded in June that governments let taxpayers keep some of the huge gains they can collect from soaring tax bases. Hats off to Miami Lakes, which is letting taxpayers…
Don’t engineer county railroad policy on a bare-bones idea
One of the boldest and most exciting ideas to arrive in years is legislation being heard this week to make it county policy to develop one or more multimodal Miami-Dade…
Costco land deal would cost county too much, yield too little
Some deals are too good to miss. Others are too bad to consider. A deal Miami-Dade is to weigh this week to sell vital land falls into the latter category.…
Steps to fix county contract rigging just scratch the surface
Miami-Dade goods and services contracting is broken, rigged and tortoise slow, a committee said as it agreed to tweak procedures. Members pushed to speed it up. If the county commission…
What, no options to $99.90 a trip transit? Hey, taxi! Uber!
Commissioners tried hard last week to dissect a no-bid contract renewal for on-demand van rides from home to rail or bus. They cut contract length in half to 18 months…
Leave some money on the table for the forgotten taxpayer
An old quip about taxes is apropos as we look at what we will soon be forced to pay. The federal government, so it goes, had simplified that complex 1040…
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