New transit chief must persuade public to get back aboard
Miami-Dade’s new transportation chief, Eulois Cleckley, has a golden road to increase mobility without spending a cent on infrastructure. All he has to do is persuade more of us to…
Microsoft landing elevates business hub of Latin America
Welcome news that Microsoft will open a 50,000-square-foot Brickell office is being hailed as a big step in a Miami tech boom, but it primarily elevates Miami as the business…
Don’t use public land as chips in closed-door poker games
Notice how many big deals today involve private operators taking over public assets as profit centers for up to 99 years via closed-door negotiations. Public assets are a sacred trust…
Judge labels state mask bullying as ‘without legal authority’
One of the most ham-fisted efforts by a state to prevent the public from protecting itself is Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to bar mask mandates in the public schools during…
Jobs gains hopeful signals, but recovery will be a long trek
Miami’s economic recovery from the pandemic appears stronger even while the Delta variant of Covid-19 is exacerbating pain in our community. But all is not yet sunny. Monthly data from…
Should county be sound as a dollar or sound as a crypto?
Talk about a paradox: one county effort aims to require all businesses to accept cash, while another probes whether the county itself should accept crypto payments. Back-to-back articles in Miami…
100 years after the land boom began, what’s coming next?
Exactly 100 years ago this month the great Florida real estate boom took off, ushering in our unofficial state bird, the construction crane, which still thrives in flocks in Miami.…
Miami’s city hall needs team players, not grandstanders
Big-money deals seldom get finished in Miami because almost every city commissioner wants to play his own game by his own rules and end up as the star. Right or…
Miami’s open-door history reveals the best path forward
Exactly 125 years ago in a grimy pool hall on our nation’s frontier a new city was born: Miami. Each concert hall at the Arsht Center today holds six times…
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