Coral Gables Election: NOT ONE CANDIDATE (6)…

March 15, 2021 Leave a comment

…is prepared to fight hard against and diminish the rate of excessive, large-scale building and traffic in Coral Gables as epitomized by the massive structures along Ponce de Leon Blvd, Dixie Highway, the University of Miami, the scaled up Miracle Mile and restructured Crafts Section. Is this “smart development”? Is this quality of life?

No single candidate has stepped forward to fight against the Coral Gables-style overdevelopment. The ugly giant electric power lines along Ponce de Leon Blvd parallel to Dixie Highway, as evidence of unspoken long-term development priorities of city politics.

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Coral Gables Election: NOT ONE CANDIDATE (3)

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Has proposed significant, specific measures to mitigate the suffocating increase in local traffic in Coral Gables. Except for very modest proposals to invest in traffic calming devices, which just shift traffic from one district to another, no important plans have been proposed.

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Coral Gables Election: NOT ONE CANDIDATE (2)…

March 15, 2021 Leave a comment

…has proposed to strengthen the weak democracy and pathetic voter participation in the City of Coral Gables.

Typically, 25% of the voters participate in elections, and in a close vote, commissioners and mayor are elected by little more thank 50% of the participating voters.

South Miami moved their election date to November coincident with national and regional elections and this will yield a doubling of voter participation. That is a better, competitive democracy.

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REPUBLICAN LED STATES HIGHER COVID AND DEATH RATES

March 15, 2021 Leave a comment

States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates as the crisis dragged on, a study released Tuesday found.

“From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower Covid-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence,” the study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Medical University of South Carolina showed.

“For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 through mid-December,” the study found.

States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds

FLORIDA has had mediocre rates recently and there are complaints that all of the vaccines are not being allocated by the state, or are being directed to friends of Governor DeSantis.

Filed under Coral Gables, COVID-19, Florida

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