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In recent weeks, Coral Gables residents have been subjected to a misleading narrative about litigation costs and fiscal responsibility—one that conveniently ignores the much larger, far more damaging financial decisions made by this commission during the last two years. Let’s set the record straight.

A July 16 memo from Commissioner Castro to the Commission cherry-picked $556,000 in

litigation costs—spanning ten years—and used it as a red herring to deflect attention from the truly alarming fiscal choices our city has made recently. The Wawa lawsuit, which makes up the bulk of that figure, was a response to a lawsuit filed against us—not a voluntary legal crusade. That’s an important distinction.

Meanwhile, what’s gone unmentioned is the hir

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