Michael Lewis

Publisher and Editor at Miami Today

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Articles

Why is county scrambling to avoid a $14-a-year fee hike?

1 week ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on June 18, 2025 The county faces ultra-tight deadlines to put waste collection fees on next year’s tax bills because of a deadlock over a maximum $14 increase. That’s not $14 a load, or a week, or a month.
When a deal’s benefits are ‘sure to come,’ think of baseball

2 weeks ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on June 11, 2025 Once upon a time, long before anyone now in office got involved, top Miami-Dade and City of Miami officials created a massive project sold as an economic development deal that went terribly – and predictably – wrong. Some of today’s officials label it the worst spending call ever. It’s a lesson in irrational exuberance that officials should reference every time they plan to spend public money based on growth that’s “sure to come.” The error was to...
In good times or bad, recommended tax rate cuts are elusive

3 weeks ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on June 4, 2025 As the total taxable value of Miami-Dade properties keeps rising, property appraisers keep telling the other elected officials who will end up making the decisions to lower their tax rates.
Don’t kill our golden goose, tourism’s vital job-building taxes

1 month ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on May 28, 2025 Economic wisdom has never been prized by our Legislature.
Watching the pennies without spending more than we save

1 month ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on May 21, 2025 As Miami-Dade County stares at forced budget cuts after years of spending at will, it’s wisely starting to look for where money may be leaking out unnoticed.
How will red tape and withholding information add efficiency?

1 month ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on May 14, 2025 If you think cutting county red tape is easy, look how hard it is just to get ideas on how to do it.
Cutting needless red tape can buy county more for its bucks

1 month ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on May 7, 2025 Is Miami-Dade suddenly getting serious about reforming its buying of goods and services?
What will replace the pink buses that brought in prosperity?

2 months ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on April 30, 2025 In last week’s Miami Today focus on Coral Gables’ Centennial, a 1924 photo sticks in mind: buses rolling through the Granada Entrance gate chock full of new residents flocking here for a better life. That picture symbolizes our lost past. Developer George Merrick had 100 pink “Coral Gables” buses constantly on the road to bring in land buyers from across the nation seeking rays of our sunshine. They came through seven city welcoming gates. Unlike...
Miami to Coral Gables to Islandia: rocky roads to cityhood

2 months ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on April 23, 2025 Coral Gables, whose 100th anniversary as a city we celebrate this week, was a carefully designed community that was never supposed to be a city at all – founder George Merrick had always pledged that Coral Gables would be part of the City of Miami. But it was not to be. Instead, in April of 1925, Mr. Merrick’s branded “Master Suburb” was incorporated as the fifth city in Miami-Dade County, converting the vision into what became “The City Beautiful.”...
Everywhere a city? Charter review could begin the change

2 months ago | miamitodaynews.com | Michael Lewis

Written by Michael Lewis on April 16, 2025 A watershed debate of the ground rules of Miami-Dade County governance is finally on the calendar, beginning the first week in June. It’s about time.