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…
Smart transit plan (but not the one you think) gets rolling
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…
In a swift reversal, big wage rises imperil growth aspirations
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…
Magnet pull of South Florida on US residents is just a myth
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…
Can someone please tell the mayor what’s going on in his city
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…
Should the King of England name Miami’s commissioners?
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…
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