In a weird way, thank Amazon for teaching valuable lessons by defaulting on its deal with Miami-Dade to open a million-square-foot warehouse with 325 jobs on county economic development land…
We asked last week why Miami-Dade hadn’t built penalties into a contract on which global icon Amazon has defaulted, failing to staff a warehouse that was part of a sweetheart…
Sometimes the shiny prize of an economic development deal with a big-name company can get a little tarnished. All is not gold that glitters. In 2017 three South Florida counties…
The longest-running drama in Miami-Dade is not the battle to revive the closed Coconut Grove Playhouse, now dark for its 17th year, but the bid to create a water park…
Miami-Dade is in a bind trying to find an economical, environmentally sound way to dispose of its solid waste before it hits a ceiling that will prevent further development countywide.…
South Florida’s smaller businesses are hopeful as they assess their future – at least, their future in the next six months. If the economy, mother nature and political winds don’t…
Just when we thought Miami-Dade County’s buying of goods and services couldn’t be any more bureaucratic and wasteful, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has ordered county officials to skew buying further…
A Mount Vesuvius of frustration erupted last week as the trust that helps fund a transit expansion known as the Smart Plan lamented that it couldn’t learn about how our…
Handing a theater to one commissioner to run under his private team of city-paid workers expands a perilous trend that goes beyond the Miami City Commission’s 3-2 vote to let…
We pleaded in June that governments let taxpayers keep some of the huge gains they can collect from soaring tax bases. Hats off to Miami Lakes, which is letting taxpayers…
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