The last move Carlos Alvarez made as Miami-Dade mayor was his best, ousting manager George Burgess and installing a subordinate who eclipses him.…
The last move Carlos Alvarez made as Miami-Dade mayor was his best, ousting manager George Burgess and installing a subordinate who eclipses him.…
Once upon a time, Miami-Dade residents got very angry with ethics-challenged commissioners. Their path to upgrade ethics: change the county charter.…
When commissioners last week offered voters multiple changes to Miami-Dade's charter, pivotal was one that reformers had ignored: rebalancing powers between the mayor and commission.…
Ironically, the legacy of Carlos Alvarez and George Burgess is likely to be medicine to cure maladies they left us.…
Local governments' biggest sin isn't corruption. Far worse is a stolen sense of entitlement.…
Exactly a month ago we lamented that by using county aides during working hours to battle recall, Mayor Carlos Alvarez was cementing the case of those trying to oust him.…
Homestead's mind-numbing plan to hand over its $22 million, 140-acre sports complex for less than a penny an acre for 30 years raises seven stern warning flags for us…
We could do worse than back eight county charter changes put forth by Norman Braman and Victor M. Diaz Jr., two bright men who've thought deeply about Miami-Dade issues.…
Failure of Miami-Dade officials to wrest a token giveback from the Florida Marlins as taxpayers spend $3 billion to build the team's stadium was no shock.…
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