End county office supplies scandal by paying lowest prices
Miami-Dade failed last week to stem its office supplies scandal that saw $1.7 million in buys disappear from unlocked storage and purchasing agents clearly ignoring instructions to buy only from…
For vital civics classes, the county is the wrong professor
A county bid to teach civics is the right idea in the wrong venue. We do need civics classes, but the county is the wrong teacher. A vote this week…
Damning audit of office supply purchases may lead to worse
A botched effort to buy county office supplies only from small local firms bought 31% from one large non-local vendor. Almost $1.7 million of the initial $3.7 million in buys…
Checks to the star to replace school glory in Florida sports
If any vestige remains in Florida of the days when high school athletes got no more reward from stardom in the game than classroom adulation and a letter on a…
Is city hall’s destiny condo towers or a municipal treasure?
Our report last week on city offices coming to the old Melreese Golf Course posed a warning for anyone who cherishes heritage: how long can historic Miami City Hall survive?…
Open the doors wide to citizens’ voices in charter reviews
Nothing is more boring, or more pivotal: both the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County are due to name teams to suggest charter changes. Nobody but an insider ever talks…
County learns an expensive lesson from taxpayers’ pockets
Miami-Dade officials vowed five years ago to put us on the cutting edge of electric bus technology. Today we’re bleeding at that cutting edge as we try to put the…
Miami’s living textbook holds keys to the past and the future
To understand Miami, look at how we got here. We seem to repeatedly tread the same ground. Fortunately, it’s all documented. The textbook is the newspaper, which compiles history one…
Now-or-never pitch for county land for Costco is no bargain
You’ve heard it too often: a last-minute deal appears that the county must make now at giveaway prices or lose a great opportunity. You hear it when a car dealer…
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