When Miami-Dade buys goods and services, it has already stacked the deck against out-of-town vendors. Now the push is on to eliminate any outsiders at all. The result will be…
If Miami-Dade doesn’t start running transit more hours, more reliably and with growing rather than disappearing loads, talk of six new corridors should remain just that – talk. Commissioners last…
An ethics commission study unveils new proof that salaries for Miami-Dade County’s commissioners and mayor are badly distorted. Not that we needed proof that 13 commissioners who get $6,000 full…
A display at a transportation summit last week laid out a tempting and innovative solution to unraveling Miami-Dade’s tangle of traffic woes. After a two-team competition for cutting-edge solutions days…
Watching a 16-week competition to solve Miami’s mobility crisis we expected the revolutionary: overhead gondolas, waterborne transit, autonomous vehicles or a technology we’d never even heard of. So when the…
As Miami-Dade tries to fund more mass transit, what we already have is bleeding riders because of poor service and faltering equipment. County officials blame fund shortages, but they’re spending…
Commissioner Dennis Moss’s concept that an independent body set salaries for Miami-Dade’s mayor and commissioners couldn’t be wiser, or more timely. It couldn’t be wiser because officials shouldn’t seek raises…
If everything local government does seems to cost more than in the private sector, one pivotal reason might be that county employees are paid so many more days to stay…
It’s well past time for County Hall to tell the public why transit riders are disappearing in droves and what the county is going to do to reverse that exodus.…
Why does government keep approving far taller towers in Miami-Dade when we’re driving on the same old traffic-choked roads with inadequate mass transit? Most of us have asked that question…
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