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Volume 95 Number 48 | JULY 18-24, 2018 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents Hernandez Mats Carvalho Solving the teacher-pay puzzle Gallon School superintendent, UTD propose raising property taxes CAROLYN GUNISS School Board members will vote to ask ing, has the backing of the United Teach- [email protected] them to do just so. ers of Dade. At its meeting on Wednesday, school UTD President Karla Hernandez Mats Banking on the hope that homeowners board members will be asked to approve said paying a tax for teachers will give re- will pay a little more property taxes to give a resolution to have the district add a ref- turns on investments. But a social media teachers a pay increase and improve se- erendum to the Nov. 6 ballot. The plan, group of teachers and other activists say curity in schools, Miami-Dade County which has been about a year in the mak- SEE PAY 4A Living wage ordinance gets another look The board to make final vote on July 24 FELIPE RIVAS one job to make ends meet. [email protected] The county’s living wage man- dates that county employees The Miami-Dade County make $12 to $15, depending on Commission has made the health benefits. first move to extend the coun- District 12 Commissioner ty’s living wage ordinance to Jose “Pepe” Diaz agrees that concession workers at Miami previous attempts to pass the International Airport. living wage ordi- Commissioners nance were too vast. last Tuesday unan- The language of the imously approved ordinance needed to the measure at its be narrowed down first reading. Xavi- specifically for con- er Suarez was away cession workers. tending to family In May, Mi- matters. ami-Dade Mayor These airport Carlos Giménez concession jobs are Barbara Jordan vetoed a law that subcontracted by would have required different hiring companies, all county tenants to pay their not directly associated with employees $15 an hour. He airlines or MIA. The new pro- said passing such a law was posal would allow concession bad policy and would hurt the workers whose employers economy in the long run. lease space at the airport to be This time around, some paid the county’s living wage. commissioners who voted The board will make a final against the item in the past, vote on July 24. said they would support a Currently, the airport’s con- living wage ordinance specif- cession workers make around ically for airport concession Miami Times Photo/ Felipe Rivas $8.25 an hour and many of workers, explained District 1 Members of 32BJ SEIU rally outside of the Stephen P. Clark building in support of the proposed extension them have to work more than SEE WAGE 6A of Miami-Dade County's living wage ordinance. Millan resigns amid racism fallout Black legal advocates’ voices heard what is called ex parte con- party. Circuit Court versations. So it was “definitely a Judge Stephen K. BARRETT BILALI the bench after evidence “When discussing a case combination of the two” Millan pending before you, oppos- ethics violations that forced Miami Times Contributor showed he used racist com- ments to describe a defen- ing counsel has to be there,” Millan to resign, Arscott In the case of Millan v. dant in a case over which he said Loreal Arscott, an ac- said. the people of Miami-Dade was presiding. tive member and officer of Arscott said there was County, there was no trial, But Millan was facing oth- the Gwen S. Cherry Black a third point, which has no defense, no prosecution, er ethics violation and con- Women Lawyers Associa- not been reported as well. nor jury. And now, there is troversy. tion. “You can’t just talk to In an analysis of his sen- no judge. In addition to making rac- one party without talking tencing record, Millan’s Eleventh Circuit Court ist comments, which he has to the other. A judge is pro- history also showed he Judge Stephen Millan decid- never denied saying, Millan hibited from discussing the sentenced Blacks to longer ed on Friday to resign from was also cited for holding facts of the case with either SEE JUDGE 4A Today BUSINESS ................................................. 8B YOU & YOURS ............................................ 7D Legal service 91° CLASSIFIED ............................................. 13B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 8D link for small IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 1C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 9D business 8B INSIDE LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 5C OBITUARIES ............................................. 12D 8 90158 00100 0 Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | JULY 18-24, 2018 | MiamiTimesOnline.com Credo Of The Black Press MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage EDITORIAL The Black Press believes that America Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida (ISSN 0739-0319) can best lead the world from racial and MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, Association of America Send address changes to national antagonism when it accords Miami, Florida 33127-1818 Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, to every person, regardless of race, FEMA needs Post Office Box 270200 $52.99 – Two Year $99.99 P.O. Box 270200 creed or color, his or her human and Buena Vista Station, Miami, Florida 33127 Foreign $75.00 Buena Vista Station, Miami, FL Phone 305-694-6210 legal rights. Hating no person, fearing 7 percent sales tax for Florida residents 33127-0200 • 305-694-6210 no person, the Black Press strives to to do better H.E. SIGISMUND REEVES, Founder, 1923-1968 help every person in the firm belief that GARTH C. REEVES, JR., Editor, 1972-1982 all persons are hurt as long as anyone report by the Federal Emergency Management GARTH C. REEVES, SR., Publisher Emeritus is held back. Agency has now confirmed, in brutal detail, RACHEL J. REEVES, Publisher and Chairman A what has long been evident: Its response to the killer hurricanes that struck Puerto Rico last fall was chaotic and tragically inadequate. Ten days after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puer- Another assault on the Black press to Rico, and the island lay devastated, President Trump BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS JR., President and CEO, NNPA callously tweeted that the residents “want everything to be done for them.” So it is to FEMA’s credit that the Amid the rush to compre- newsprint is already increasing We forthrightly oppose the agency has publicly acknowledged the disorganization hend the ramifications of a costs enough to prompt layoffs Trump tariffs on newsprint full-scale international trade and scaled-back news coverage and demand an end to the di- and the woeful shortage of basic supplies and personnel war initiated by the errant and by some of the nation’s major sastrous trade policies that are that contributed to the havoc from which the island still backward tariff policies of the dailies and weekly publica- hurting our businesses and suffers. It took days for the first barge of food and water Trump Administration, there tions. If these tariffs remain communities. to reach the island. are results of the tariffs that in place, scores of newspapers The current dispute Given that newsprint and Frances Robles’s Times article about the report makes need to be challenged by Black with smaller circulations, no- over the rising costs labor account for most of the for chilling reading considering that Hurricanes Irma America. The financial sus- tably those that serve Black of the paper product cost of running a newspaper, and Maria destroyed 70,000 homes, left 3.3 million tainability of the Black Press of communities, could be forced it is easy to see how jacking up termed“ “newsprint,” people without power and may have led to more than America is now facing a cata- to cease publishing a print edi- the price of newsprint by more 4,500 deaths, often because of a lack of medical services. strophic and a possible deadly tion or close altogether. because of tariffs on than 30 percent could spell the Thousands of Puerto Ricans still lack shelter or power, impact, because of these new During the past 191 years, Canadian newsprint difference between these pub- and tens of thousands are still unable to return from ref- tariffs. the Black Press has survived, threatens the future of lications eking out a modest uge in the states. The current dispute over endured and overcome past profit or going out of business. Yet amid another hurricane season, blame is less im- the rising costs of the paper firebombing and improvised member publishers of Around 2,000 newspapers have portant than learning from failures. Last year’s storms product termed “newsprint,” explosive attacks, as well as the NNPA. closed or morphed into some- were the most destructive on record, and climate change because of tariffs on Canadian other deadly manifestations of thing else in the last 15 years. promises worse to come. As Kirstjen Nielsen, the secre- newsprint threatens the future racial violence. The newsprint market. NORPAC says the add- Our newspapers are the life- tary of Homeland Security, correctly said, the after-ac- of member publishers of the tariffs appear to have been put ed duties, or tariffs, at the bor- blood for our communities. tion report “provides a transformative road map for how National Newspaper Publish- in place by the Trump Admin- der are protecting it. NORPAC If there was ever a time we respond to future catastrophic incidents.” ers Association (NNPA) and istration after being encour- can fight for its self-interest when the country needed a could further isolate and dis- aged by the interests of a single range of authentic and “trust- Among other things, wrote Brock Long, the FEMA but the U.S. government has enfranchise Black businesses paper mill in Washington State an obligation to consider the ed” outlets to share news and administrator, all levels of government and individual and communities in cities and called NORPAC.

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