Ever wonder what happens to all the lost items at Miami International Airport for which the owner is never found? They just build Goodwill – Goodwill Industries of South Florida, that is, which pays $13,000 a month for unclaimed airport found items and plans to keep on doing it. This story is premium content for […]
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With Miami-Dade County facing the economic disaster of a pending loss of PortMiami’s sole fueling site, a committee on Monday sought a report of all other critical sites that the county doesn’t own – but then decided that the public will never be told what that report contains. This story is premium content for our […]
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The Miami-Dade County Appropriations Committee is set to vote this week on the long-delayed Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery’s operating plan, which, if approved, could see the center finally up and running within four to six months. The vote would mark a key step in launching the first-of-its-kind, comprehensive diversion and treatment facility. […]
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One month after the launch of Metro Express, Miami-Dade’s first Bus Rapid Transit system, it has received approval from riders while the county’s Department of Transportation and Public Works continues to address issues like crowding and delays. During the South Dade TransitWay’s first month of service from Oct. 27 through Nov. 25, more than 9,300 […]
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The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce named the winner of next year’s Sand in My Shoes Award, hosted a fireside chat with a Miami mayoral candidate and honored Miami Today’s publishers with the Alvah Chapman Award at their last trustee meeting of the year last week. The Sand in My Shoes Award will go to […]
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Miami-Dade County came within six inches of creating a 26.5-mile-long urban trail for bicycles and pedestrians before a linkage of the Underline, Snapper Creek and planned Ludlam trails got snarled in commission parochialism that left a half-foot gap in the pathway last week. The inability to close the gap between two commission districts in public […]
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