Padrón and MDC

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Padrón and MDC

All deserved credit should go to Miami Dade College presidents Eduardo Padrón and Robert McCabe for their contributions to the success of the college.

But let’s not forget the college’s first and second presidents respectively, Kenneth Williams and Dr. Peter Masiko, who built a chicken coop and later a single building into the largest community college in the world with 165,000 students.

The foundation that they set has successfully grown into what you see today.

Donald Gene Dobbs, Miami

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Vote for civility and ethics for better local governments

By Jim Cason, former mayor, Coral Gables, Merrett R. Stierheim, former Miami-Dade County manager

February 20, 2019 01:36 PM

There are many important municipal elections scheduled this year throughout Miami-Dade County. The impact of those elections on local residents spans across many issues, like personal safety and security, taxation, and neighborhood recareation programs.

Because these issues often affect the quality of residential life and the delivery of municipal public services, residents should take more than passing interest in who their candidates are and what they stand for. It is most important for all of us to become informed and vote.