Miami-Dade Municipalities tough out economy

" Local Government Budgets ”It’s going to be a time that we all have to buckle down and get through this,” Mayor Julio Robaina of Hialeah said at a recent budget hearing. “Our residents are not in a position to pay more. Assessments are going to go down next year...

Potential Annexation Of The Falls And Fairway Estates

" Miami-Dade County mailed a letter to 12 cities last August asking whether they might take in one of eight unincorporated areas after the county lifted a two-year moratorium on annexations. Several cities said they might want parts of some areas, like Biscayne Gardens...

Fool me once

" While Miami-Dade commissioners have conceded that the county can’t keep promises it made in 2002 when voters approved a half-penny sales tax to fund bus and rail projects over the next 25 years they now want voters to approve another half-penny tax to fund the very same...

Green Travel

"Every week I try to share with my readers new and interesting websites that I come across. I have found that various departments within the Florida Sate government have been launching some very useful interactive sites; this week’s pick is Florida Department of...

How to Recycle Your Television

" Florida Department of Environmental Protection has launched an interactive web-based map which enables citizens to find out where to recycle electronics. With the digital conversion just months away, many unwanted analog televisions will need to be recycled as new digital...

North Miami Offers $2 Million To Help Residents Fix Homes

North Miami has more than $2 million available to help residents fix up their homes, but not a lot of people know about it, said Housing Administrator Tom Calderon.

$48M Paid for a North Miami Beach Shopping Center

"An amount of $48 million, or about $200 per square foot, for a 233,000-square-foot lifestyle center in North Miami Beach from Palm Beach Gardens-based RAM Real Estate Inc was paid by Florida-based Woolbright Development Inc."