Organizations need periodic wakeup calls to tend to their own core principles, the ones that underpin the game they’re playing and the results they expect. Whether in business, a nonprofit…
Incentives that Miami commissioners OK’d unanimously last week could hand Miami Worldcenter up to $90 million in tax rebates at almost no cost to them. That’s a giveaway to people…
Miami-Dade County sorely needs to get its act together to maximize help from the legislature. County officials complain we send far more money to the state than we get back…
Two weeks ago – before the Obama-Castro deal – a friend at dinner asked how I saw Miami in five years. Not having a crystal ball, my forecast began “I’m…
US consumer confidence charged to a post-recession high this month. In Miami, we didn’t need the uptick report in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal – we could see the confidence written…
Miami-Dade’s transportation planning runs as late as its buses. Last week commissioners sent to the state a 10-year transit plan that they’d neither studied nor discussed. They were running too…
Lobbyists have rights too. That’s hard to say with a straight face if you watch governments here. Some very visible lobbyists and their cousins the political fundraisers have for so…
Give credit where it’s due: Miami’s commission was on target when it sidetracked a revival of Miami Marine Stadium. The deal came out of the blue, changed too fast and…
Last week’s heated county debate over bias on gender identity ran so long that it wiped out a subsequent meeting on transit that presented three moving issues of its own.…
Nine hours into a meeting last week, commissioners voting to begin a $200,000 study that could lead to their most vital action in decades leaked revealing thoughts. Miami-Dade, one said,…
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