Steps to fix county contract rigging just scratch the surface
Miami-Dade goods and services contracting is broken, rigged and tortoise slow, a committee said as it agreed to tweak procedures. Members pushed to speed it up. If the county commission…
What, no options to $99.90 a trip transit? Hey, taxi! Uber!
Commissioners tried hard last week to dissect a no-bid contract renewal for on-demand van rides from home to rail or bus. They cut contract length in half to 18 months…
Leave some money on the table for the forgotten taxpayer
An old quip about taxes is apropos as we look at what we will soon be forced to pay. The federal government, so it goes, had simplified that complex 1040…
Beware of California pay-for-play law for ‘student’ athletes
Our universities should be wary of legislation in far-off California that could cost their sports programs untold millions as the student-athlete myth vanishes. We once believed – or at least…
Law of unintended consequences catches up with censors
It didn’t take long for Florida’s latest censorship shots to backfire. A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law that public schools must within five days remove access to…
That huge population ‘gain’ during covid was actually a loss
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. The good story that we’ve been telling one another – and the world – is that during the…
Elected reprehensibles want hunting and fishing economy
Congratulations to the Florida Legislature, which in the session that ended last week made a valiant effort to turn the clock back many, many decades to a far more peaceful…
In Costco site debate, four pivotal county concerns at stake
Four classic government dilemmas converged as county commissioners debated the sale of South Dade land they had dedicated two decades ago to vital water and sewer use to developers of…
Vital downtown mobility plan gets on the road decades late
Our Better Late Than Never Award goes to last week’s Transportation Planning Organization vote to revamp the Miami Downtown Transportation Master Plan to meet current and future needs. That’s a…
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