If Miami-Dade’s mentally ill who cycle year after year through crime, then jail and then homelessness were voters, the county would long ago have opened its $51 million mental health center designed to end both that cycle and the cost of jailing them.
Our streets would be safer. Our justice system would cost less. And some wasted human lives – who knows how many? – would become more productive, healthier and happier.
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As chair of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau board, Julissa Kepner has been guiding the organization responsible for promoting Miami-Dade County as one of the world’s premier travel destinations.
Ms. Kepner has championed a strategy that positions Greater Miami at the forefront of global convention and leisure travel – leveraging cultural programming, neighborhood storytelling, digital marketing innovation, and a growing calendar of international events.
Ms. Kepner said the coming years…