As three planning committees this week begin to examine adding foot-and-bicycle-park Underline to the county’s six-corridor Smart plan to build vital rapid transit, our reaction is – huh? A 10-mile…
What if McDonald’s ran the post office? I asked that 30 years ago in this column not as a real option but to compare a stumbling federal agency to an…
A new study of county bid and purchase preferences shows a mishmash of rules among four South Florida counties that freeze out bidders from across county lines – if you…
Miami-Dade’s new transportation chief, Eulois Cleckley, has a golden road to increase mobility without spending a cent on infrastructure. All he has to do is persuade more of us to…
Welcome news that Microsoft will open a 50,000-square-foot Brickell office is being hailed as a big step in a Miami tech boom, but it primarily elevates Miami as the business…
Notice how many big deals today involve private operators taking over public assets as profit centers for up to 99 years via closed-door negotiations. Public assets are a sacred trust…
One of the most ham-fisted efforts by a state to prevent the public from protecting itself is Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to bar mask mandates in the public schools during…
Miami’s economic recovery from the pandemic appears stronger even while the Delta variant of Covid-19 is exacerbating pain in our community. But all is not yet sunny. Monthly data from…
Talk about a paradox: one county effort aims to require all businesses to accept cash, while another probes whether the county itself should accept crypto payments. Back-to-back articles in Miami…
Exactly 100 years ago this month the great Florida real estate boom took off, ushering in our unofficial state bird, the construction crane, which still thrives in flocks in Miami.…
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