News item: Mayor Francis Suarez wants voters to dump Miami’s professional manager-commission system in November and let him run the city as strong mayor because “a strong mayor is, by…
Talk about terrible timing: just as the county transit union was asking voters last week to oppose transit outsourcing, the county’s first bus outsourcing wave was reporting better performance while…
Critics asking whether governments return enough bang for our tax bucks might add a second question: are we getting the right kind of bang? Take Community Redevelopment Agencies, which under…
A mayor’s plea to scuttle an expensive, unsolicited and secretive bid for a new county courthouse is, for government, absolutely blistering. Rightly so. Mayor Carlos Giménez trained all his guns…
Never before have we welcomed a veto of aid to Miami, but we hail Gov. Rick Scott’s roadblock of $1 million geared to narrow Biscayne Boulevard. That funding would be…
A long-awaited study uncorked last week on how catamarans can beat traffic gridlock finds that boats could cut 20 minutes from the time buses clock on a single route but…
Miami is weighing the best uses of its assets. New commissioners Joe Carollo and Manolo Reyes are asking hard questions about properties that could yield hefty income were the city…
New York, which is battling subway woes that make Miami’s faltering transit feel like a swiftly flowing stream, unveiled eight solutions in a global competition last week. New York was…
The news about Miami-Dade Transit goes from horrible to far worse. How much more can we endure? And when will we see the county do something more to slow the…
Why do governments build projects before they know how to fund construction or how to maintain and operate them? And shouldn’t real estate assets help fund other public needs? The…
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