One of the boldest and most exciting ideas to arrive in years is legislation being heard this week to make it county policy to develop one or more multimodal Miami-Dade…
Some deals are too good to miss. Others are too bad to consider. A deal Miami-Dade is to weigh this week to sell vital land falls into the latter category.…
Miami-Dade goods and services contracting is broken, rigged and tortoise slow, a committee said as it agreed to tweak procedures. Members pushed to speed it up. If the county commission…
Commissioners tried hard last week to dissect a no-bid contract renewal for on-demand van rides from home to rail or bus. They cut contract length in half to 18 months…
An old quip about taxes is apropos as we look at what we will soon be forced to pay. The federal government, so it goes, had simplified that complex 1040…
Our universities should be wary of legislation in far-off California that could cost their sports programs untold millions as the student-athlete myth vanishes. We once believed – or at least…
It didn’t take long for Florida’s latest censorship shots to backfire. A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that public schools must within five days remove access to…
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. The good story that we’ve been telling one another – and the world – is that during the…
Congratulations to the Florida Legislature, which in the session that ended last week made a valiant effort to turn the clock back many, many decades to a far more peaceful…
Four classic government dilemmas converged as county commissioners debated the sale of South Dade land they had dedicated two decades ago to vital water and sewer use to developers of…
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