FYI Miami: November 13, 2025

WRONG-WAY COMBAT: The Florida Department of Transportation is to take wrong-way driving countermeasures at five locations in Miami-Dade beginning in January after county commissioners last week OK’d an agreement with the state, which will fund the work on South Miami Avenue south of the I-95 southbound offramp, Southeast First Avenue near the I-95 on and off ramps, North Miami Avenue just south of State Road 112/I-95, Northwest Sixth Avenue south of State Road 932/Northwest 103rd Street, and the eastbound William Lehman Causeway Loop to East Country Club Drive. The state will install “One Way” signs, sod medians, add “No U/Left Turn” signs, place pavement guidelines and more.

A JOBS BEACON: Miami-Dade is asking the legislature to appropriate funds for a Beacon Council program the council is calling simply “TalentBridge: Empowering Florida’s Workforce, Strengthening Florida’s Economy.” The project would create a centralized platform with real-time labor market data on trends and hiring needs and would map programs, credentials and funding options. It would also offer targeted job training, internship opportunities and workforce readiness programs, including options to get jobs for disabled workers. County commissioners voted 12-0 last week to support a measure by Commissioner Natalie Milian Orbis seeking the state funding. 

MILITARY DEGREES: Applicants for some of Miami-Dade County government’s 30,000 jobs could substitute military experience for formerly required college degrees under legislation that passed 12-0 last week. The resolution requires Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to list all county job classifications for which it’s feasible to allow veterans seeking those jobs to substitute active-duty military experience for traditional college degree requirements. She then must change county rules to make it happen. Excluded are department directors, physicians, jobs exempt by law from the county’s classified service system, elected officials, and unpaid appointees. 

HOME SWEET HOME: As commissioners last week debated how to find anyone to buy the near-century-old Dade County Courthouse to help fund use of the soon-to-open Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center nearby, Chairman Anthony Rodriguez suggested “Why don’t we do a straw poll to see if we convert it into a commissioners’ mansion?” Responded Juan Carlos Bermudez, “You say that and it’s funny, but the City of Detroit has a mayor’s mansion.” So for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Mr. Rodriguez replied, “We’ll give her the main courtroom.”

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