Can school system’s soccer stadium play make the grade?
Miami-Dade’s school system, which teaches decisions based on fact and not emotion, has made itself lead player to create a professional soccer stadium in Little Havana. That’s great, because if…
The great illusion: a soccer stadium up magician’s sleeve
Illusionist Harry Houdini would have applauded as county commissioners last week escaped outrage over funding another stadium by declaring that an Orange Sports Complex Community Redevelopment Area would be totally…
Assess port’s needs before handing its lands to developers
Revision of PortMiami’s plan for use of its land is getting a vital boost from a county commissioner who recognizes that the current frenzy to hand scarce acres to the…
Miami’s new skyline due to tower over the great unknown
In 32-plus years of detailing development in Miami we’ve had far too much to report on. For decades we’ve said that our state bird ought to be the construction crane.…
Balancing act vital in choosing users of scarce public lands
Diametrically opposed views on handing PortMiami sites to business users raise questions about how government should disburse scarce public land. One end of the spectrum is like the kid with…
To our benefit, transit trust seeking to live up to its name
In a remarkable journey, the Citizens’ Independent Transportation Trust is living up to its name’s four elements: citizens, independent, transportation and trust. After the county commission over a decade hijacked…
Incentives bait wasted fishing for what we’ve already caught
Miami can’t lure enough high-wage jobs with sun, sand and hub-of-the-Americas site, even coupled with benefits of a low-tax state, global links, multicultural workers and Art Basel razzle-dazzle. So incentives…
The public has a firm right to view the public’s business
Miami-Dade commissioners covet a bit of backroom wheeling and dealing out of the public eye, perhaps cutting deals and swapping votes for whatever. Little has created more distrust than such…
Which should come first, their election or their education?
Maybe it has something to do with a Harvard degree. At services Saturday for deceased Northern Trust Vice Chairman Bill Allen, we heard that he’d jested at a Harvard Business…
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