It looks like the COVID-19 crisis is over, huh? Sure, the number of positive cases keep rising and the number of available hospital beds keep shrinking, but since Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that government meetings must now be held in a public place, just like before the pandemic, our county commission is no longer […]
The Miami-Dade Commission had another “last” meeting Monday — this will really have to be the last because the new guys get sworn in Tuesday — to vote on a resolution that would allow some of them to keep meeting virtually during the COVID19 state of emergency. They have to have a quorum. And the […]
One by one, the mostly young, engaged activists who spoke before the Miami-Dade Commission at the first virtual public hearing on the county’s $9 billion budget said more or less the same thing: Move 10% of the funding from the police and corrections budgets — which take up almost half of the $2.2 billion general […]
There’s something wrong about these virtual government meetings allowed for the COVID19 state of emergency. And, no, it’s not just how our esteemed electeds stumbled with the technology, dropping off and muting themselves and conversations overlapped. The problem is they seem to want to use this excuse to sneak some shenanigans by while the rest of […]