Florida’s chief financial officer announced last week to loud fanfare that he was freezing $2 billion of taxpayers’ money because the asset management firm’s world views don’t match his politics.…
Those of us who mistakenly thought our big local needs were things like affordable worker housing and transportation upgrades missed the biggest need of all: more and bigger billboards closer…
As Miami-Dade plans six new mass transit corridors, the great disconnect between the growth aims and reality is not just too little money to build but that riders continue to…
When Sam Bankman-Fried’s net worth fell from $16 billion to zero in seven days as his cryptocurrency exchange FTX went bankrupt Friday, taking with it all value of FTX’s sponsorship…
The smart dumping of two years of failed negotiations to build a monorail across Biscayne Bay will serve us well. First, the county returns to the starting line with the…
In his latest service, a dinner to honor digital legend Manny Medina began with praise by many but ended with Mr. Medina warning that we are ignoring Miami’s elephant in…
Nobody will say it, but Miami-Dade’s Smart Program to add six legs of rapid transit closely resembles California’s bullet train, which began 14 years ago and is unlikely to run…
Imagine 10-story-tall digital billboards with illuminated ads front and back changing every eight seconds, each triple the size of the largest standard expressway billboard. Now imagine them spread all over…
An overhaul of Miami-Dade’s buying of goods and services could save taxpayers untold millions. In larger contracts it could save tens of millions apiece. While saving, moreover, the quality of…
When Miami commissioners a decade ago were moving ahead to allow illuminated billboards on three highly visible city-owned buildings, this column was headed “Are city commissioners desperate, insensitive or greedy?”…
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