Law of unintended consequences catches up with censors
It didn’t take long for Florida’s latest censorship shots to backfire. A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that public schools must within five days remove access to…
That huge population ‘gain’ during covid was actually a loss
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. The good story that we’ve been telling one another – and the world – is that during the…
Elected reprehensibles want hunting and fishing economy
Congratulations to the Florida Legislature, which in the session that ended last week made a valiant effort to turn the clock back many, many decades to a far more peaceful…
In Costco site debate, four pivotal county concerns at stake
Four classic government dilemmas converged as county commissioners debated the sale of South Dade land they had dedicated two decades ago to vital water and sewer use to developers of…
Vital downtown mobility plan gets on the road decades late
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…
What must we do to get our affordable housing plan right?
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…
Another last-minute county deal with too little transparency
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…
Evasive county legislation is actually a soccer stadium ploy
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…
Is it ballplayers or state legislators who are minor league?
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…
Recent Comments