Low pay leading to vacancies in the state attorney’s and public defender’s offices have prompted Miami-Dade County to cut a highly unusual deal with a developer to give justice attorneys…
Like most naming rights deals, Miami-Dade’s sale to the University of Miami Health System of a Metrorail station name doesn’t pass the smell test. The county made the sale this…
Miami-Dade failed last week to stem its office supplies scandal that saw $1.7 million in buys disappear from unlocked storage and purchasing agents clearly ignoring instructions to buy only from…
A county bid to teach civics is the right idea in the wrong venue. We do need civics classes, but the county is the wrong teacher. A vote this week…
A botched effort to buy county office supplies only from small local firms bought 31% from one large non-local vendor. Almost $1.7 million of the initial $3.7 million in buys…
If any vestige remains in Florida of the days when high school athletes got no more reward from stardom in the game than classroom adulation and a letter on a…
Our report last week on city offices coming to the old Melreese Golf Course posed a warning for anyone who cherishes heritage: how long can historic Miami City Hall survive?…
Nothing is more boring, or more pivotal: both the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County are due to name teams to suggest charter changes. Nobody but an insider ever talks…
Miami-Dade officials vowed five years ago to put us on the cutting edge of electric bus technology. Today we’re bleeding at that cutting edge as we try to put the…
To understand Miami, look at how we got here. We seem to repeatedly tread the same ground. Fortunately, it’s all documented. The textbook is the newspaper, which compiles history one…
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