Survey is out — just as the mayor faces re-election Affordable housing? Traffic? Well-paying jobs? Finding reliable child care or elderly programs? How about all of the above? Miami-Dade County wants to know what residents need and/or lack most and are working with the Florida International University Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center to conduct the […]
County commissioners really want Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to put the contract for the synchronization of traffic lights — yeah, we all thought that had been done already — out for a new bid after a locally prominent serial campaign donor filed a bid protest and said his company did not get the same advantage as […]
Well, after years and years and suing and pleading and losing in court and Tallahassee and trying again and coaxing and buying properties and people off and threatening homeowners with frivolous lawsuits, developers who want to turn the Calusa Golf Course into 550-plus homes finally got a 75% vote of the homeowners to break a 99-year […]
When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Commissioner Audrey Edmonson made themselves members of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority early last year — convincing colleagues to appoint them rather than citizens, as they had traditionally done — there was talk about making MDX toll funds available to build rail for the SMART plan. That was the whole idea, […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has come up with a genius solution to the county’s massive traffic gridlock and mass transit problems: Cars that fly. Ladra is not kidding. Gimenez wants to be George Jetson. We don’t have money to expand rail, which is what was promised to the people with the half-penny tax increase in […]
The long-debated and controversial 836 extension known as the Kendall Parkway was given final approval 9-4 by the Miami-Dade Commission on Thursday, despite so many warnings, questions and concerns. That doesn’t mean it’s a done deal, however, and not because it still needs state and federal approval that is hopefully not as purchased as county […]