Category: OPINION
EDITORIAL: At proposed dog park, evidence should come before action
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board For more than 50 years, zoning conditions on a parcel at 520 University Drive have preserved its use as overflow parking for the…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables is raising garbage fees. Residents deserve the full math.
By Coral Gables Gazette editorial board A few hours can reveal a great deal about municipal government. At the May 19 Coral Gables Commission meeting, Commissioner Ariel Fernandez pointed to…
EDITORIAL: A city commission cannot govern through permanent political warfare
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Coral Gables has spent a century cultivating an identity rooted in civic quality, architectural beauty, and institutional seriousness. That identity depends not only…
EDITORIAL: The cost of deferred decisions
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Cities rarely decline through catastrophe alone. More often, they drift there gradually — through repairs postponed another budget cycle, infrastructure concerns documented but…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables should not shrink the World Cup
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board UPDATED: The amended proposal now before the Coral Gables City Commission would allow Fritz & Franz Bierhaus to host official World Cup watch…
EDITORIAL: A city hosting FIFA should not fear the World Cup
By Coral Gables Gazette editorial board For the next several weeks, Coral Gables occupies a unique place in the global sports landscape. FIFA, the governing body of the world’s most…
EDITORIAL: A budget built on growth meets a changing reality
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board A budget is an act of confidence. Every line item that projects revenue and authorizes spending reflects a judgment that the conditions behind…
EDITORIAL: At 101, Coral Gables begins its second century as a different city
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The first year of Coral Gables’ second century has revealed a decisive shift in how the city develops, governs, and defines itself. What…
EDITORIAL: Is the City Beautiful slowly becoming a Miami-Dade neighborhood?
By the Coral Gables Gazette Editorial Board Coral Gables was designed to resist becoming a neighborhood. For a century, it succeeded. George Merrick laid out the streets in the 1920s…
EDITORIAL: A mandate, with limits, from Coral Gables voters
Mayor Vince Lago asked Gables voters to approve eight ballot questions. They gave him six.
