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Amazon gets a free pass that can be rectified in two ways

Amazon gets a free pass that can be rectified in two ways

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…

Rudderless Miami Marine Stadium adrift without a skipper

Rudderless Miami Marine Stadium adrift without a skipper

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…

Employment balancing act: how much education is enough?

Employment balancing act: how much education is enough?

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…

Commission digs deeply into stinky problem of septic tanks

Commission digs deeply into stinky problem of septic tanks

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…

We’ll safeguard transit funds, just put lipstick on that pig

We’ll safeguard transit funds, just put lipstick on that pig

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…

Sand in My Shoes heaped hopeful ideas on dinner plates

Sand in My Shoes heaped hopeful ideas on dinner plates

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…

End bait-and-switch on transit costs, benefits and timelines

End bait-and-switch on transit costs, benefits and timelines

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…

Huh? Amazon hiring 250,000 but can’t staff a warehouse?

Huh? Amazon hiring 250,000 but can’t staff a warehouse?

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…

Amazon playing a shell game with county contract and jobs

Amazon playing a shell game with county contract and jobs

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…

Amazon defaults on county contract: where is protection?

Amazon defaults on county contract: where is protection?

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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