As Miami-Dade commissioners last week debated land use around airports, a tense exchange exposed a pivotal divide over their role in serving us all. Discussion saw Chairman Oliver Gilbert III…
The trust safeguarding transportation tax money has wisely agreed, with anguish, to push ahead with new South Corridor bus rapid transit although members are distressed that the public will get…
In a letter to the editor, Miami Beach’s city manager notes that Metromover in Downtown Miami “is enjoying increasing ridership and public acceptance” and hopes opponents of Miami Beach transit…
Rules for how Miami-Dade functions face a revamp that will affect us all for decades. What that means to each of us depends on the process, who gets to play,…
It’s check-out time for a highly acclaimed and equally profitable Florida International University hospitality program that had a 1,200-student campus in China and also brought to its Miami classrooms Chinese…
The trust created to add mass transit isn’t giving up on faster trips from Homestead to Dadeland as the public was promised, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any…
A government attitude problem could harm taxpayers. The ugly attitude is that tourists are a nuisance and cost us money. Elected officials sometimes say almost that. What if we complained…
It’s heartening that all five Miami commissioners have agreed to help scrub city hall’s reputation, which has been soiled as a haven of self-interest and corruption. Actual corruption is judged…
Miami-Dade officials have once again shown disrespect for the Citizens’ Independent Transportation Trust and, by extension, the voters who approved a trust to guard their transportation tax money. In the…
As Miami Beach seriously weighs a moratorium on new hotel rooms based on claims that “right now we are suffering economically; across South Beach there’s rooms at $40 … a…
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