Reopening won’t spur a full recovery – it takes teamwork
Failure after well over a month to appoint 40% of a task force battling the impacts of Covid-19 in Miami-Dade’s two largest business sectors underscores the vast gaps in efforts…
Home learning leaves a lot to be desired but may linger on
While the Covid-19 shutdown teaches us that working remotely from home might become a plus, it has also shown us that home schooling is usually a loss. As classes at…
Unfortunately, new rail transit likely to be Covid-19 victim
There are a number of reasons to carefully heed Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Audrey Edmonson’s concerns about planning a Metrorail extension from downtown Miami to the Broward County line. Just look…
Recovery drive needs to focus on reopening Main Street
What if Main Street – every Main Street – stays mostly closed? Federal aid geared to battle the pandemic-induced shutdown of Main Street stores and their small-business cousins in all…
We can’t have economic recovery without visitor recovery
In January, as some Florida legislators maneuvered to stop state spending to lure visitors on the theory that people would come to Florida no matter what, we suggested that rather…
Leaders must step up and vow Together We Will Prosper
Days after Hurricane Andrew crushed south Miami-Dade, high-powered business leaders spearheaded comprehensive economic recovery via We Will Rebuild. Where is today’s team? What we need, right now, is a cluster…
COVID-19 will permanently change our world – but how?
The 1939 New York World’s Fair theme, the World of Tomorrow, envisioned a vastly different future. Right after the fair, the disaster of World War II led into a…
Imperiled democracy requires paying the news utility bill
If you read Miami Today regularly, you know you can’t get 90% of our news anywhere else. By design, that news…
New blueprints are coming for hospitality industry’s future
Miami-Dade’s hospitality sector is under economic siege from the coronavirus. How it recovers is crucial to the future for us all. Of course, whatever industry we look at is struggling…
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