No more free passes as required Amazon jobs disappear
Finally showing spunk in a sweetheart Amazon deal whose rules the behemoth treats as mere suggestions, Miami-Dade commissioners this week are at last looking at enforcing a jobs requirement.Unfortunately, and…
Somewhere, the system to speed up traffic took a left turn
Your car sits at rush hour in a left-turn lane – it could be at any of hundreds of intersections – and you fume until you finally get a turn…
Answer to mental health center dilemma is easy: just open it
If Miami-Dade’s mentally ill who cycle year after year through crime, then jail and then homelessness were voters, the county would long ago have opened its $51 million mental health…
How can proposed major airport in Miami-Dade take off?
We’ve been focusing on potential locations as Miami-Dade crafts a flight plan toward a second county airport that is to be larger than Miami International Airport in area and one…
Clear skies the winning factor in Miami’s airport site derby
As officials and consultants assessed sites for a commercial airport to handle more flights than Miami International Airport within a half century, the governing criterion was not suitability but turbulence.…
It’s past time to launch a second Miami commercial airport
Miami can’t afford to put on standby the launch of a new airport. It’s already well past takeoff time.Booming Miami International Airport, our lifeline, will be flying at 90% of…
Dilemma: How to speed car traffic that express buses stall?
The good news is that after decades of taxing ourselves for transit and a decade of planning, Miami-Dade residents are finally aboard the first of six systems that are meant…
After three years, county takes tentative step on waste crisis
Three years after an accidental fire burned out Miami-Dade’s only incinerator, the best path to a replacement may also be accidental. The way forward now is up to 15 parties:…
It’s time to turn our dead studies into cross-bay water transit
Could the newly floated water taxi linking Miami Beach and downtown Miami become The Little Engine That Could of transit across Biscayne Bay? For decades, some have sought ferries or taxis on the bay and rivers to move better and more calmly as road traffic has multiplied and mass transit failed to keep pace. Now, as…
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