The City of Doral Mayor and Council adopted the Fiscal Year 2027 budget following the second and final budget hearing on September 22nd, continuing the City’s focus on lowering the tax burden while maintaining services and investing in Doral’s future. The adopted budget sets the City’s operating millage rate at 1.5994 mills, the rollback rate The post City of Doral Adopts FY 2027 Budget, Lowers Tax Rates While Maintaining City Services appeared first on Miami’s Community News.

In this series I have written about the idle rail line that could connect our airport to PortMiami with the port and the airport paying for their own station, and about the one dollar Metromover fare that our county attorneys have confirmed requires nothing more than an ordinance amendment.  This final column is about the The post Why Are We Cutting Buses to fund a $483 Chauffeur Service? appeared first on Miami’s Community News.

By J. Adrian Betancourt, Host, The Miami Book Hub There’s a point in every author’s journey when you realize that writing the book was only part of the job. Now you have to figure out how to get it into someone’s hands. Preferably someone who isn’t related to you. That was at the heart of The post Writing the Book Is Only the Beginning appeared first on Miami’s Community News.

By J. Adrian Betancourt, Host, The Miami Book Hub   Before Romina Garber became the bestselling author of eight books, she was a nine-year-old ESOL student in Miami listening to her teacher read Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends. Something stirred. Romina wrote her first poem in Spanish; her teacher submitted it to the Miami-Dade The post Books as Empathy Incubators: Romina Garber on Magic and Miami appeared first on Miami’s Community News.