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‘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, and small employers especially…

A hotel moratorium is too perilous to rely on invented data

A hotel moratorium is too perilous to rely on invented data

As Miami Beach seriously weighs a moratorium on new hotel rooms based on claims that “right now we are suffering economically; across South Beach there’s rooms at $40 … a…

Stop a constitutional red-light camera ban before it starts

Stop a constitutional red-light camera ban before it starts

Two legislators’ bid to enshrine in the state Constitution a ban on cameras that catch drivers who run red lights should get its own red light, because it would aid…

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…

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