The day Miamians become the area’s top-tier homebuyers
Not many years ago a Miami-Dade creator of a vast high-end condo project decided to target the North. He hired a marketing team oriented to New York and bombed –…
Is Punxsatawney Phil raising his head on Flagler Street?
It’s Groundhog Day on downtown’s main thoroughfare, Flagler Street. The question is whether to celebrate or scream. As we reported last week, Miami’s Downtown Development Authority plans to remake Flagler…
In government as in tennis, play by rules on Key Biscayne
Two decades ago this newspaper backed a permanent Crandon Park tennis stadium for what is now the Sony Open. Global TV and upscale visitors, we said, outweighed loss of park…
When fines don’t do the job, let the punishment fit the crime
Lyrics from “A More Humane Mikado” in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “Mikado” suggest a serious solution to last week’s Miami Today report of a zoning quandary. Miami-Dade County has…
County rejects putting in writing true costs of bond issues
In the name of disclosure, commissioners last week ripped the heart out of a plan to tell voters before a bond issue goes on the county ballot how much it…
New Beacon Council CEO faces challenges on many fronts
A warm welcome – and free advice – for Larry Williams, new this week as CEO of Miami-Dade’s economic development organization, the Beacon Council. Fresh from Atlanta as the fourth…
After Affordable Care Act reprieve, who benefits in long run?
By Nancy Borkowski and Jerry Haar The ever-changing implementation schedule for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has gotten more complicated. In July, the Obama administration announced that employers with…
Fire up convention center negotiations fast and play straight
“I think it’s just a bump in the road,” Commissioner Jerry Libbin said after an appeals court last week threw out a vote on a Miami Beach Convention Center rebirth.…
Best-seller to officials: ‘How to Kick a Can Down the Road’
Congratulations, Miami-Dade, your county hall has preserved our library system via its tried-and-true fiscal policy: kick the can down the road. If we can’t pay now, let someone else pay…
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