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County jury-rigs lower rents for poorly paid state attorneys

County jury-rigs lower rents for poorly paid state attorneys

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…

County no-bid, no-hearing sale of naming rights smells bad

County no-bid, no-hearing sale of naming rights smells bad

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…

End county office supplies scandal by paying lowest prices

End county office supplies scandal by paying lowest prices

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…

For vital civics classes, the county is the wrong professor

For vital civics classes, the county is the wrong professor

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…

Damning audit of office supply purchases may lead to worse

Damning audit of office supply purchases may lead to worse

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…

Checks to the star to replace school glory in Florida sports

Checks to the star to replace school glory in Florida sports

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…

Is city hall’s destiny condo towers or a municipal treasure?

Is city hall’s destiny condo towers or a municipal treasure?

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?…

Open the doors wide to citizens’ voices in charter reviews

Open the doors wide to citizens’ voices in charter reviews

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…

County learns an expensive lesson from taxpayers’ pockets

County learns an expensive lesson from taxpayers’ pockets

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…

Miami’s living textbook holds keys to the past and the future

Miami’s living textbook holds keys to the past and the future

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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