"How did we get into this mess?" my wife fretted.…
Can we learn from our mistakes? If so, government should learn a mountain from the 2010 Miami-Dade County budget fiasco.…
If law didn't require Miami-Dade to complete its budget this week, commissioners could debate for months over what to cut and what to restore to do the least harm in…
Five years ago, Miami-Dade voters were so disgusted by county commission antics that they went out and elected as mayor a non-politician, a straight-shooter who was going to clean up…
"Good morning, children. In civics class today we'll be talking about how Miami-Dade government really works. Do you know what the county does?"…
It's been 10 years since the county spent $26.7 million of state money to buy 2.2 acres at the mouth of the Miami River in order to preserve a circle…
Miami just can't keep its hands off public waterfront. It wants to develop every speck. …
Who represents the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County? …
When he risked charges of treason by signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin supposedly said "We must all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall…
Miami-Dade is playing a perilous game of hot potato with a 13% tax increase plan, exacerbating the worst recession in 70 years.…
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