Merrett Stierheim, county manager who shaped modern Miami-Dade’s government, dies at 90

Merrett R. Stierheim, the Dade County manager who helped create a modern metropolitan government in the 1970s and ‘80s and whose reputation as a blunt, skilled public administrator made him the go-to turnaround pick for troubled bureaucracies in the 1990s and early 2000s, died on Sunday. He was 90.