jsousa@MiamiHerald.com This is a tale of two trusts -- one broken, one not. In 2002, Miami-Dade residents, feeling particularly trusting, voted to do something they declined to do several times before: tax themselves to fund mass-transit expansion and, separately, children's services. The first led to the People's Transportation Plan; the latter to The Children's Trust.
Two Taxes Vastly Different In Trust Factor
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