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In ban on diversity aims, the cure is worse than the disease

In ban on diversity aims, the cure is worse than the disease

I’ve never been a fan of diversity, equity and inclusion rules, not because I take issue with their aims but because they employ the hand of government to try to…

Let the public vote on all charter review task force proposals

Let the public vote on all charter review task force proposals

A vital belated review of Miami-Dade’s equivalent of a constitution that began last July may be headed next week for county commission action on which proposals voters can act on.…

67-year-old airport hotel remains ‘the only show in town’

67-year-old airport hotel remains ‘the only show in town’

Miami-Dade just OK’d a contract to keep Miami International Airport’s demeaned 259-room hotel open five to 10 more years. Though the county touts a first-class airport, it’s tough to be…

Decades late and dollars short, port-to-port transit pushed

Decades late and dollars short, port-to-port transit pushed

Planners last week pushed forward direct transit between PortMiami and Miami International Airport. It should have been running decades ago to everyone’s benefit, reducing traffic that clogs downtown.The glaring need…

Eight-step recipe for ducking public safety responsibilities

Eight-step recipe for ducking public safety responsibilities

In less than five minutes last week, a Miami-Dade commissioner proved it’s easy to bury in red tape a breakthrough that everyone knows is vital: a path to end the…

No more free passes as required Amazon jobs disappear

No more free passes as required Amazon jobs disappear

Finally showing spunk in a sweetheart Amazon deal whose rules the behemoth treats as mere suggestions, Miami-Dade commissioners this week are at last looking at enforcing a jobs requirement.Unfortunately, and…

Somewhere, the system to speed up traffic took a left turn

Somewhere, the system to speed up traffic took a left turn

Your car sits at rush hour in a left-turn lane – it could be at any of hundreds of intersections – and you fume until you fi­nally get a turn…

Answer to mental health center dilemma is easy: just open it

Answer to mental health center dilemma is easy: just open it

If Miami-Dade’s mentally ill who cycle year after year through crime, then jail and then homelessness were voters, the county would long ago have opened its $51 million mental health…

How can proposed major airport in Miami-Dade take off?

How can proposed major airport in Miami-Dade take off?

We’ve been focusing on potential locations as Miami-Dade crafts a flight plan toward a second county airport that is to be larger than Miami International Airport in area and one…

Clear skies the winning factor in Miami’s airport site derby

Clear skies the winning factor in Miami’s airport site derby

As officials and consultants assessed sites for a commercial airport to handle more flights than Miami International Airport within a half century, the governing criterion was not suitability but turbulence.…

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