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City aid will help Roberto Clemente Park live up to its name

City aid will help Roberto Clemente Park live up to its name

Finally, Roberto Clemente Park, which should have been a Miami showplace, is about to get long-awaited upgrades that will help it live up to the quality of its Hall of…

Could county actually cancel $46 million for World Cup?

Could county actually cancel $46 million for World Cup?

Spending taxes on sports is seldom logical – look at the 2009 vote to use $3 billion on a Marlins baseball stadium, with most yet to be paid. We swallowed…

Commission takes care of business friends via airport piñata

Commission takes care of business friends via airport piñata

Having already given tenants of 244 lucrative Miami International Airport sites 12- to 15-year lease extensions, county commissioners this month put favored firms on a 48-business list to get all…

Seek more for public after decades of arena lands neglect

Seek more for public after decades of arena lands neglect

In a too-little, too-late deal, Miami-Dade is now enroute to 60% of the bayfront open space that we were promised in construction of a basketball arena three decades ago. A…

How could we slow local traffic and still speed commutes?

How could we slow local traffic and still speed commutes?

A mobility quandary: we want to speed painfully slow commutes from home to work yet we strive to slow commuter cut-through traffic near those homes. Yes, you can slow neighborhood…

Nail down the details before handing over city’s historic site

Nail down the details before handing over city’s historic site

Miami’s latest “solution” to the riddle of its historic but inactive Olympia Theater downtown is, unfortunately, no firmer than myriad other answers in the half-century since owner Maurice Gusman put…

Our airport’s welcome mat is shabby, national survey shows

Our airport’s welcome mat is shabby, national survey shows

The welcome mat at Miami’s front door isn’t welcoming enough. That front door is Miami International Airport, where most of the 96% of our visitors who arrive by air get…

Thieves in city hall are poised to steal a no-election election

Thieves in city hall are poised to steal a no-election election

Miami commissioners are poised this week to steal an extra year in office without voter approval. If this were some authoritarian banana republic we’d call it business as usual. It…

Why is county scrambling to avoid a $14-a-year fee hike?

Why is county scrambling to avoid a $14-a-year fee hike?

The county faces ultra-tight deadlines to put waste collection fees on next year’s tax bills because of a deadlock over a maximum $14 increase. That’s not $14 a load, or…

When a deal’s benefits are ‘sure to come,’ think of baseball

When a deal’s benefits are ‘sure to come,’ think of baseball

Once upon a time, long before anyone now in office got involved, top Miami-Dade and City of Miami officials created a massive project sold as an economic development deal that…

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