Piece by piece, Tallahassee grabs control of local issues
Florida’s lawmakers this year intensified their aim of reserving for themselves alone regulators powers that they in the past shared with cities and counties or left entirely to local governments.…
‘Sobering results’ of employer survey need rapid response
With what the lead researcher calls “sobering results,” a survey of employer needs in Miami-Dade unveiled last week found that only 4% are satisfied with job skills of their candidates,…
Everybody wants to live in Florida – anywhere but Miami
If we believe our own publicity, Miami-Dade is booming as people from across the nation rush to live here and our population soars. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your views,…
You don’t have an airport, commissioner, it belongs to us all
As Miami-Dade commissioners last week debated land use around airports, a tense exchange exposed a pivotal divide over their role in serving us all. Discussion saw Chairman Oliver Gilbert III…
Take half a loaf of transit, because gridlock is not appetizing
The trust safeguarding transportation tax money has wisely agreed, with anguish, to push ahead with new South Corridor bus rapid transit although members are distressed that the public will get…
To add Beach transit, the perfect is the enemy of the good
In a letter to the editor, Miami Beach’s city manager notes that Metromover in Downtown Miami “is enjoying increasing ridership and public acceptance” and hopes opponents of Miami Beach transit…
A charter review sounds dull, but it could change your life
Rules for how Miami-Dade functions face a revamp that will affect us all for decades. What that means to each of us depends on the process, who gets to play,…
FIU’s China campus shutdown blemishes International title
It’s check-out time for a highly acclaimed and equally profitable Florida International University hospitality program that had a 1,200-student campus in China and also brought to its Miami classrooms Chinese…
A final call to give South Dade real rapid transit as pledged
The trust created to add mass transit isn’t giving up on faster trips from Homestead to Dadeland as the public was promised, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any…
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