College Avenue: Un camino para llegar a la Universidad

Este es el libro sobre cómo llegar a College, de Carlos Alamilla

Una entrevista con Carlos Alamilla está en proceso en el ,programa "Comentarios Económicos" para beneficio de los televidentes.

The Beacon Council announces Susan Greene as new CMO

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Maria Camacho mcamacho@beaconcouncil.com (305) 579-1341   The Beacon Council announces Susan Greene as new CMO (April 2, 2015 - MIAMI) The Beacon Council announced today that Susan Greene has been chosen to be the new Chief Marketing Officer of Miami-Dade County's official economic development partnership. "I am pleased to announce that after a long and thorough search, we have selected Susan Greene to serve as Chief Marketing Officer for The Beacon Council," The Beacon Council President & CEO Larry K. Williams said. "Susan is intimately familiar with our community's history, leaders and institutions and she brings decades of experience in marketing, strategic planning and communications, branding, and public relations. She has extensive knowledge of Miami-Dade County and The Beacon Council." Greene has served as Marketing Director for Becker & Poliakoff, one of South Florida's largest and most well-respected law firms, for the last 21 years. Alan Becker, the firm's founding shareholder, served as Chair of The Beacon Council and currently serves as Vice Chair of Enterprise Florida, the state's economic development organization.    She worked closely with Becker throughout his tenure at The Beacon Council and in his current role at Enterprise Florida. Greene brings in-depth knowledge of The Beacon Council's mission and goals. Becker said, "We really hate to lose Susan at the law firm, but there is no better place to share her talents with the community than through her new role at The Beacon Council." Greene also comes with experience in state and federal government having served in political positions with the National Governors Association, U.S. Senate and Florida Legislature. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University, and has a Business Coaching Certificate from Florida International University. She is also a long time resident of South Florida and a graduate of Miami-Dade County Public Schools. About The Beacon Council The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade County's official economic development partnership, is a not-for-profit, public-private organization that focuses on job creation and economic growth by coordinating community-wide programs; promoting minority business and urban economic revitalization; providing assistance to local businesses in their expansion efforts; and marketing Greater Miami throughout the world. For more information, visit www.beaconcouncil.com. --end--

The Fastest-Growing U.S. City Is a Senior Community in Florida (BusinessWeek)

Americans over 55 are flocking to the Villages, a sprawling retiree utopia that just keeps growing

Residents watch passers by from a restaurant in The Villages, billed as Florida's Friendliest Retirement Hometown.

The latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau are in, and the fastest-growing city in the U.S. is not an oil boomtown or a magnet for new immigrants, but a senior living community outside Orlando, Fla., with a reputation for attracting active retirees.

The Villages, a sprawling senior community of 114,000 residents, increased 5.4 percent in the year ended July 2014, making it the country’s fastest-growing metro for the second straight year. That’s triple the growth rate for the state of Florida and far faster than Myrtle Beach, S.C., the second fastest-growing U.S. city, which expanded 3.2 percent.

The explanation is partly semantic. The Census considers the Villages a metropolitan area, based on the area's core density. Some smaller areas, known as micros, grew at faster rates than the Villages, with Williston, N.D., topping the list at 8.7 percent. The Villages is lumped in with such cities as Houston and Dallas, which saw the largest increases in absolute terms but grew more slowly on a percentage basis.

Still, it’s worth spending a moment marveling at the growth of the Villages, which is all the more impressive considering the demographic trends working against it.

First is attrition. The 2010 Census found that 96 percent of residents were 55 or older. A quirk in the way the Census has defined the Villages means that number might overstate the elderly population in the metropolitan area, but it’s a fair bet that there are more deaths than births on an annual basis.

Then there are trends in senior living, which include competition from a boomin new senior living construction and research indicating that aging baby boomers would rather grow old in their homes than move to senior developments.  

So how has the Villages kept up such fast growth?

A Bloomberg story on the community last year described a veritable senior-living utopia, with low crime, no kids, and lots of golf. (There are more golf carts in the Villages than there are taxis in New York City, according to that story.) There have also been racier tales. The New York Post highlighted the local dating scene and a supposed black market for Viagra—a salacious tale that probably wasn't terrible publicity. To appeal to the widest range of seniors, it helps to offer something for everyone.

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Una cumbre de transporte público, sin pasajeros...Raquel Regalado (El Nuevo Herald)

En un condado tan diverso como Miami-Dade, hay algunas cosas que todos tenemos en común y recientemente la más repetida son las quejas sobre el tránsito. Y mientras algunos residentes no saben los nombres de sus representes locales, todos conocemos el famoso medio centavo para el tránsito y las promesas que él mismo nunca cumplió.　 La semana pasada en el centro urbano de la ciudad de Miami, se celebró una cumbre de transporte con el objetivo de reunir clientes, organizaciones, expertos nacionales y la comunidad para hablar sobre el futuro del transporte en Miami-Dade.　 Pero lamentablemente, era más de lo mismo, conversaciones sobre otras ciudades como Denver que aprobaron un impuesto y largos discursos sobre proyectos privados enfocados en hacer dinero en vez de resolver nuestros problemas locales.

Mientras escuchaba hablar sobre nuestro futuro colectivo, los túneles y el uso de gas natural, lamentaba la ausencia de nuestros residentes, los que usan y los que no usan el transporte público y el entendimiento que estos son los consumidores de un servicio que el gobierno, obviamente, no está proporcionando correctamente.

Pensaba sobre los autobuses vacíos que vemos a diario y la falta de conectividad que hay entre los diferentes componentes de nuestro sistema de tránsito. Y me preguntaba: ¿Por qué en vez de tapar el sol con un dedo y hablar de grandes proyectos que van a costar mucho pero abarcar poco, no nos enfocamos primero en usar lo que tenemos? ¿Por qué no hacer un esfuerzo y confrontar por de una vez por todas lo que funciona y lo que no funciona? ¿Por qué no hablar de la experiencia de usar nuestro tránsito y enfocarnos en lo básico: proveer un servicio que sea limpio y que esté a tiempo?

Como miembro de la Junta Escolar, pensaba en nuestros 2,544 estudiantes que usan el sistema de transporte público de Miami-Dade a diario y la oportunidad que tenemos con estos nuestros ciudadanos del futuro.　 El programa que le proporciona a estudiantes de　 Maritime & Science Technology Academy (Mast), Design & Architecture Senior (Dash), New World School of the Arts, Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Sr., Young Men's Preparatory Academy, South Miami Senior, Southwest Senior y Coral Gables Senior High un Metro Pass si viven a más de 2 millas de estas escuelas le cuesta al sistema escolar $56.25 por estudiante cada mes. En vez de recoger a estos niños en diferentes partes del condado, el sistema escolar manda un autobús escolar a llevarlos y traerlos de la parada de Metrorail. De esa manera el programa ahorra el dinero de los residentes y reduce los autobuses escolares que contribuyen a la congestión del tránsito.

Pero en un sistema de más de 347,000 estudiantes y cerca de 50,000 empleados, uno se pregunta cuánto más se pudiera hacer. Y qué pudiéramos hacer para que estos 2,544 adolescentes tuvieran una experiencia más placentera en el transporte público y lo continuaran usando después de la secundaria. Pero de eso no se habló en la cumbre de tránsito, ya que ésta se convocó sin los pasajeros de Miami-Dade.

En los próximos meses, vamos a escuchar mucho sobre el transporte y los proyectos multimillonarios que se están planificando, pero yo les pido que consideren el deber que tenemos de preservar el sistema en el cual hemos invertido por más de una década, hacer que este funcione lo mejor posible y definir quienes son los pasajeros de nuestro sistema de tránsito hoy y quienes serán los pasajeros de mañana.

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