Michael Lewis

If there was a plot to keep us from riding mass transit to Miami Beach, it would match plans for the new Beach corridor: make us use four, five or more transit modes to get

Rather than evaluate 125 organizations that plug gaps in the safety net for the needy, Miami-Dade once again took the easy way and without discussion kicked the can down the road, funding each with what

For decades Miami Today has argued that Miami-Dade’s unfairly underpaid commissioners should ask voters for a raise. The commission has now chosen the absolute worst tactic, trying to sneak in a big raise without the

Miami is on the precipice of a damaging step to further subdivide the city into five semi-independent fiefdoms where a local commissioner rules over a category of spending with no coordination across the district boundaries. A

If you’re not outraged by the way Miami-Dade commissioners surreptitiously more than doubled their compensation last week, maybe you don’t know the details. In case you missed it, seven commissioners voted to put into the budget

An overhaul of Miami-Dade’s buying of goods and services could save taxpayers untold millions. In larger contracts it could save tens of millions apiece. While saving, moreover, the quality of purchases would actually rise and the

In his latest service, a dinner to honor digital legend Manny Medina began with praise by many but ended with Mr. Medina warning that we are ignoring Miami’s elephant in the room. That elephant is not

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Suddenly, Miami-Dade has become a national beacon of shrinking unemployment and rising wages, seemingly a cushy featherbed for the new CEO of our economic development organization when he enters the job next week. First looks, however,

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