Category: OPINION
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables has processes. Lago did only what the rules required.
Coral Gables had promised itself a process for choosing its next city manager. It also has a written process for deciding whose name goes on a park. One was a…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables swore them in. Then acted as if the truth could wait.
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Before anyone testified about Crystal Residences, Coral Gables required an oath. Raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables has not shown its 30-year UM deal is fair
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The City Commission voted 4-0 Tuesday to advance the University of Miami’s proposed 30-year development agreement, with Commissioner Ariel Fernandez absent. The vote…
EDITORIAL: Gomez may be the right city manager. Coral Gables should prove it
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Mayor Vince Lago’s proposal to appoint Deputy City Manager Joe Gomez as Coral Gables’ permanent city manager, effective Jan. 8, 2027, is both…
EDITORIAL: Don’t rush the public decision on UM deal
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The University of Miami’s proposed 30-year development agreement did not appear overnight. That matters. UM submitted an earlier version of the package in…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables City Commission should stop treating an interim manager as a contingency
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Peter Iglesias gave the Coral Gables City Commission more than four months to prepare for his departure as city manager. More than half…
EDITORIAL: Why can’t Coral Gables’ transportation board meet regularly?
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board On July 21, the Transportation Advisory Board gathered to discuss a potentially significant development in the city’s transit planning: an interagency effort involving…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables should finally debate a developer-donor ordinance
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board For months, Coral Gables First raised almost nothing. Then, in a four-day window immediately after the candidate-qualifying period closed, the Lago-linked political committee…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables needs one set of numbers before it studies cuts
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Last week, we asked Coral Gables to show its plan for the next budget: to explain, before adopting a spending plan that holds…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables should show its plan for the next budget
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board In several important ways, Coral Gables’ proposed fiscal 2027 budget demonstrates discipline. The $318.44 million plan City Manager Peter Iglesias sent to the…
