As soccer flub proves, we cheat ourselves by being cheap
It’s no surprise that elected officials were caught unawares when Miami Today revealed last week that a contract among Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami and the owners of the…
Marlins contract makes soccer next door a tougher game
Much as we might want a Major League Soccer stadium near Marlins Park, the clock is running out and obstacles loom, an unreported barrier being the Miami Marlins. The group…
Just because there’s money, you don’t have to spend it all
Miami-Dade aims to spend every cent of a tax windfall while patting itself on the back for not raising taxes. Instead, the county is hailing all the good things that…
County should take another step to play fair on bond issues
A vital step to build fiscal sanity and voter awareness passed in a Miami-Dade committee last week. The measure would require calls for general obligation bonds to state the cost…
County must get Marlins to pay their pittance for stadium
It took less than three years from the time Miami-Dade County approved financing for a baseball stadium for the Miami Marlins to the day it opened in 2012. The Marlins…
Looking to define trends in Miami’s shifting condo market
You can’t spot a trend on day one. A deviation becomes a trend only if it lasts awhile. Otherwise, it’s just an anomaly, a blip on history’s radar. That’s what…
Go-slow governments create frustrating economic hurdles
Frustration with governments’ snail’s pace has reached the point that critics now sit within government halls. New bathrooms were due in Coconut Grove’s Kennedy Park two years ago but work…
Free speech trumps school system’s gag rule on teachers
Educators long have fought to teach freely, standing firmly for free speech. That makes it all the more pitiful that the Miami-Dade County school district is telling the world that…
Along the road to transit gains, chamber told it’s the driver
A chamber of commerce goals huddle seeking to unsnarl Miami’s traffic found no easy answer last week but got a surprise challenge from experts: Do it yourself. The good news,…
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