Is privately built five-level air cargo hub too good to be true?
Miami-Dade is weighing an unsolicited offer to fill an air cargo gap made public last month amidst a global air shipping boom. The developer asks to multiply cargo capacity at…
Unsolicited county proposals: act in haste, repent at leisure
Tinkering with rules on private proposals for public projects is heading the wrong direction, one that would limit careful review before signing on with taxpayers’ money and resources. Changes advanced…
County needs to unveil answers to costly air cargo crunch
Miami-Dade is hustling to add air cargo capacity at a time demand is growing so fast that the county can’t keep up and is in danger of losing clients to…
Sham votes in state expressway power play aren’t credible
The Greater Miami Expressway Agency gives every appearance of flagrantly violating Florida’s Sunshine Law as it continues a state power play to take over $4 billion in expressways from a…
In a public-private deal, expert advice doesn’t cost, it pays
Miami-Dade commissioners led by Joe A. Martinez have raised a vital issue of why the county hires experts to vet big unsolicited deals. Why, they ask, can’t county staff alone…
Turn good jobs spigot back on, legislators, and be heroes
For two years Florida’s development agencies, including Miami-Dade’s Beacon Council, have been handicapped in luring high-paying jobs in industries that trigger higher than average economic growth. That needs to change,…
Where does the governor find his ‘right’ to infect others?
Dear Governor DeSantis: It’s very hard to understand what you’re doing about Covid-19, but I think I now see why you abort so many measures to control its spread. Let…
Huh? Underline is to rapid transit as a fish is to a bicycle
As three planning committees this week begin to examine adding foot-and-bicycle-park Underline to the county’s six-corridor Smart plan to build vital rapid transit, our reaction is – huh? A 10-mile…
Let’s look again: What if we privatized the postal service?
What if McDonald’s ran the post office? I asked that 30 years ago in this column not as a real option but to compare a stumbling federal agency to an…
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