Category: OPINION
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables is building its mobility future. It still needs a plan to pay for it.
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Two discussions at City Hall last week, on their surface unrelated, point to the same civic question. On one side, the city’s new…
EDITORIAL: What a $6 million warning reveals about Coral Gables
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board At a March 18 meeting that drew little public attention, Coral Gables Finance Director Diana Gomez offered a clear, measured warning. Even a…
CASTRO: Why changing Coral Gables elections would give developers more power
By Melissa CastroMs. Castro is a Coral Gables City Commissioner. Coral Gables residents are already worried about one thing more than anything else: overdevelopment. Now imagine giving the people who…
EDITORIAL: How the Coral Gables Police Department built a culture of accountability
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board When the Coral Gables Police Department first pursued accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies in the early 1990s, Chief…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables waited 15 years for this idea. Now it should move
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board At the March 10 City Commission meeting, Mayor Vince Lago did something that does not happen often enough in municipal government: he showed…
EDITORIAL: What Coral Gables town halls are for
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board About 70 residents gathered at the Coral Gables Public Safety Building for a town hall on March 9 intended to explain the eight…
EDITORIAL: Coral Gables is deciding what its streets are for
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board Last week the Gazette wrote about a driverless Waymo vehicle quietly navigating Coral Gables streets — a technology that may have arrived before…
EDITORIAL: The future arrived quietly. Coral Gables should meet it prepared
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board On a recent Tuesday afternoon, a Jaguar I-Pace pulled up near Coral Gables Wayside Park off of Red Road. No driver sat behind…
EDITORIAL: The Commission’s record is real. So was this missed opportunity
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board When a commission defends its past record more vigorously than it engages the idea before it, the instinct must be examined. The Coral…
EDITORIAL: West of LeJeune and the question of housing intent
By the Coral Gables Gazette editorial board The Development Review Committee’s upcoming agenda includes two proposals that would bring 13 three-story townhomes to blocks west of LeJeune Road. Two older…
