County shuts barn door after milking its tax cash cow dry
County commissioners have just unanimously decided that, come October, Miami-Dade’s half percent transit tax will for the first time be used the way voters were promised it would. Bravo. Unfortunately,…
Legislation to pry into academic minds gets failing grade
One of the worst ideas ever to taint Florida’s Legislature surfaced last week: a bill to require that all public Florida universities survey faculty and students about their personal viewpoints.…
Biggest cruise terminals deal ever a public-private win-win
PortMiami, which is already setting cruise and freight records, is poised to multiply the bounty with the world’s largest contractual guarantee between a cruise line and any seaport. A resolution…
Strong Miami employment numbers track state and nation
Mixed signals from external events may complicate a coherent economic outlook for Miami, but one thing is sure: employment is booming today. In interpreting where we’re heading locally, how much…
As Miami’s mobility decreases, we’re fencing ourselves in
As highway capacity grows more slowly than traffic does and we see such gaps expanding in mass transit too, look down the road at the end game: are live-work-play communities…
Weekend’s traffic jam nightmare a dream for mass transit
If we needed reason to ditch our cars and climb aboard something else, the long Presidents’ Day weekend handed it to us. Unless you stayed home for five days, you…
Lower neighborhood speed limits require tougher policing
As county officials work to speed traffic flow on major arteries, local officials are pulling the other way to slow traffic on residential streets. These aren’t two engines trying to…
Ferré speech at park dedication should become a legacy
Let us hope that a seminal message in Miami’s history will be the speech by former Mayor Maurice Ferré – one of the major forces for advancement in his city’s…
County transit closes gap to begin a ridership turnaround
Good news echoes for Miami-Dade County transit: fewer riders are fleeing trains, buses and the Metromover. If that sounds like saying that your favorite team is still losing games but…
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