If you think a heaven-sent grant of $389.5 million to finish funding 13.5-mile commuter rail from downtown Miami to Aventura means you’ll hop aboard soon, take a deep breath: even…
As dust settles today on a spotlight election of a president, Miami-Dade voters have also elected five vital officials for the first time as constitutional officers, peeling off key elements…
Miamians who voted four-to-one in August to empower an independent inspector general at city hall have gotten less than half a loaf in an ugly bait-and-switch that puts a would-be…
A high-visibility puzzle in our nail-biting battle for the presidency has been the impact of immigration. Mounds of data that the US Census Bureau unveiled last week contain a vital…
I’d never before heard Miami-Dade’s forceful and direct county commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert III at a loss for words, but last week he was nonplused – and for good reason.…
In George Orwell’s classic 1949 novel “1984,” the people of fictional Oceania are told by a dictator that “war is peace.” In Woody Allen’s classic 1971 film “Bananas” the dictator…
The first route of the Smart Program to add six Miami-Dade transit legs was not elevated as some had hoped, but much of it sits up in the air as…
In the 1990s Miami-Dade added an independent inspector general to uncover county government fraud, waste and abuse. The office proved so useful that, to prevent commission meddling, voters in 2020…
Under pressure of a federal court case, Florida’s Nassau County school district has agreed to return to school libraries a book about three penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo,…
Seeking reelection 40 years ago and focusing on federal subsidies, President Ronald Reagan fired at Miami-Dade’s shaky Metrorail. “In Miami,” he told voters, “the $1 billion subsidy helped Miami build…
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