A vote last week giving Amazon an extra year to hire the 325 workers a land buy mandated felt eerily familiar. I heard echoes of 15 years ago, when the…
One person has been right all along about restoring Miami Marine Stadium: Commissioner Joe Carollo has insisted that the city have a game plan that begins with what the decaying…
Employers seeking to fill key jobs in an era of ultra-low unemployment increasingly wrestle with balancing scarce potential employees who check all the boxes against more-available workers who don’t meet…
Frustrated by lack of financing to help residents replace septic tanks with sewer hookups, county commissioners last week sketched the vital program themselves and told the mayor and her team…
A county committee agreed last week – some kicking and screaming – to resolve that Miami-Dade won’t again misspend the voter-approved half-penny sales tax for transit on uses that the…
A thousand Miamians assembled last week to honor the Knight Foundation’s Alberto Ibargüen got more than expected: it wasn’t the usual rubber chicken fundraiser, and his speech accepting an award…
To get Smart Program transit OKs, officials cite prices far below their ultimate level. It’s a wink and a nod. As long as the public can pay, officials gloss over…
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…
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