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…
Legislators waving Confederacy’s bloody shirt in our faces
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…
Bizarre order to mayor exposes flaw in county’s structure
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…
Add county bidders, end senseless rules, level playing field
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…
41st Street is Main Street in government vs. the people battle
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…
Welcome to the state that keeps heroes out of its schools
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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