Amazon defaults on county contract: where is protection?
Sometimes the shiny prize of an economic development deal with a big-name company can get a little tarnished. All is not gold that glitters. In 2017 three South Florida counties…
Image is everything: 15-year-old taxis are bad ambassadors
Fast-changing Miami has few constants. One is the annual return of the buzzards that encircle our skyscrapers from their summers in Hinckley, Ohio. The other is the return of the…
Will Miami Wilds water park be blindsided by a bat?
The longest-running drama in Miami-Dade is not the battle to revive the closed Coconut Grove Playhouse, now dark for its 17th year, but the bid to create a water park…
Adopt mayor’s vital waste plan now, with one major option
Miami-Dade is in a bind trying to find an economical, environmentally sound way to dispose of its solid waste before it hits a ceiling that will prevent further development countywide.…
South Florida’s smaller businesses are bigger on optimism
South Florida’s smaller businesses are hopeful as they assess their future – at least, their future in the next six months. If the economy, mother nature and political winds don’t…
Will county buy the best at the lowest prices? Good luck!
Just when we thought Miami-Dade County’s buying of goods and services couldn’t be any more bureaucratic and wasteful, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has ordered county officials to skew buying further…
Why can’t our transit trust get the facts on county’s plans?
A Mount Vesuvius of frustration erupted last week as the trust that helps fund a transit expansion known as the Smart Plan lamented that it couldn’t learn about how our…
Miami makes a towering mistake in splintering its assets
Handing a theater to one commissioner to run under his private team of city-paid workers expands a perilous trend that goes beyond the Miami City Commission’s 3-2 vote to let…
One town balances public and private needs; who else will?
We pleaded in June that governments let taxpayers keep some of the huge gains they can collect from soaring tax bases. Hats off to Miami Lakes, which is letting taxpayers…
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