Taxpayers deserve real budget transparency

You can track your Amazon package to the minute. You can watch your DoorDash driver turn onto your street. But try tracking how Miami-Dade spends its $12.9 billion budget – good luck.

The county will tell you the information is online – and some of it is. There’s even a tool called the “Online Checkbook.” But it’s broken, the county knows it’s broken, and officials have done nothing — not fixed it, not replaced it, not even bothered to tell the public. That is not transparency. That is the appearance of transparency. Not a small town operation

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