We’ve heard the plea for years: if only Miami had rail like New York’s subways we’d unsnarl traffic. So we crafted the Smart plan, six legs of rail to stitch…
Eight years ago the county sought bids to replace its creaky Metrorail fleet, built in 1983. This week officials will welcome the first new train. Barring more delays, all 136…
It’s wasteful that one-sixth of all Miami-Dade product and service contracts have no competing bids. Government contracts without competition cost taxpayers more. The trend is for most governments, not just…
Miami-Dade’s iconic cities have just elected new mayors who got head starts learning the job: each attorney is son of a mayor of his city and has gained valued lessons…
The labor market puzzle just got more perplexing. Job demand is growing, unemployment is falling, yet wages seem stuck in place. Or are they? “Jobs Rebound, Wages Stand Still” was…
As we struggle to map out an easy path to mobility in a rapidly congesting Miami, let me deliver the bad news: no single solution serves us all. But that’s…
A team studying Miami-Dade’s charter has wisely voted for fair commission pay. What should be an easy step to join Florida’s other 66 counties that use a state pay scale…
As South Florida’s economic development leaders wrap up their entries in the sweepstakes to lure fast-growing global corporation Amazon’s second headquarters, we’d love to see how they’re finessing the issue…
It’s hard for charities to win county aid, but once they get it, they get it forever. That’s true no matter how effective or ineffective a group is, or how…
Faced with a legitimate outcry over transit cuts just as the county aims to spend $6 billion to add transit corridors, Mayor Carlos Giménez took a well-worn route last week:…
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