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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 berate Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez because fiefdom mentalities…

Restore Miami Beach tie to Sister Cities with proper funds

Restore Miami Beach tie to Sister Cities with proper funds

Miami Beach is taking a necessary step in working to bring its global Sister Cities program back under the city’s umbrella after handing it off to the local chamber of…

Florida needs less state control and more in its home towns

Florida needs less state control and more in its home towns

As Miami-Dade commissioners last week asked the state for money, they also unanimously passed four measures asking the state to take its heavy foot off the county’s back. The target…

Anointing true expressways king a transportation minefield

Anointing true expressways king a transportation minefield

It was gut-wrenching to watch Transportation Planning Organization members last week tiptoe through a minefield of minor concern to them: a representative to another group. Targeted was how to give…

County vowed a transit Rolls Royce; we’re getting a Ford

County vowed a transit Rolls Royce; we’re getting a Ford

The trust safeguarding our transit taxes accepted half a loaf last week for the $368 million South Dade Corridor Bus Rapid Transit, cheering that it will be good service while…

Signature bridge downtown merits a signature park below

Signature bridge downtown merits a signature park below

Two newly elected commissioners give Miami fresh views to seize multiple opportunities. One that flies under not only the radar but also the highway is the Underdeck, a 33-acre linear…

County sharpens its game as new public-private deal looms

County sharpens its game as new public-private deal looms

Give county officials kudos for learning. After they hit pitfalls in past public-private deals, they’ve avoided the same errors in an airport land lease for a car dealership. The most…

Amazon gets a free pass that can be rectified in two ways

Amazon gets a free pass that can be rectified in two ways

A vote last week giving Amazon an extra year to hire the 325 workers a land buy mandated felt eerily familiar. I heard echoes of 15 years ago, when the…

Rudderless Miami Marine Stadium adrift without a skipper

Rudderless Miami Marine Stadium adrift without a skipper

One person has been right all along about restoring Miami Marine Stadium: Commissioner Joe Carollo has insisted that the city have a game plan that begins with what the decaying…

Employment balancing act: how much education is enough?

Employment balancing act: how much education is enough?

Employers seeking to fill key jobs in an era of ultra-low unemployment increasingly wrestle with balancing scarce potential employees who check all the boxes against more-available workers who don’t meet…

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