Caitie Switalski Muñoz
ReporterCaitie Switalski Muñoz covers news and stories concerning quality of life in Broward County and its municipalities for WLRN News. Her award-winning coverage focuses on: affordable housing, city and county governments, homelessness issues, transportation and slice of life here in South Florida.
As the Broward Correspondent for WLRN her award-winning reporting has been featured nationally on NPR newscasts, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here & Now, 1A, The Takeaway, On Point, and Science Friday. You will also hear Caitie fill in occasionally on our weekly shows and anchoring newscasts.
Before working in public media full-time, Caitie worked with the editors and reporters at WFSU-FM in Tallahassee, and anchored Morning Edition for WUFT-FM in Gainesville for three years. A former WLRN Intern, Caitie has been covering Broward County full-time here since October of 2017.
Caitie graduated from the University of Florida, with a B.S. in Journalism and is a proud Gator fan.
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NewsNearly a year after the city's sewage spills, the issue of taking action to create cleaner waterways has taken center stage in the mayoral election. -
NewsU.S. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, toured City Furniture's headquarters in Tamarac Friday. He then joined local business leaders from several industries to ask them what they need from the federal government to recover during the pandemic.
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NewsMembers of the League of Women Voters in Broward County helped voters understand the statewide amendments on their ballots via Zoom Wednesday.
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NewsCommissioners in Broward voted unanimously to create a countywide police and criminal justice review board.
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NewsOn a rainy Friday in Lauderhill, political parties, candidates and the press got a rare inside look at how signatures get matched on vote-by-mail ballot envelopes.
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NewsA group of concerned residents who live in downtown, and medical doctors, have urged the city and Broward County that the festival could become a spreader event. Meanwhile, the event producer argues there are ample safety measures in place.
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NewsPresident Trump has signaled he will contest election results in November if vote-by-mail ballots take days to count. Two years ago in Florida, he did just that.
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NewsFrom city hall meetings to federal hearings, the coronavirus has at times widened the public discourse — and at other times made it more difficult.
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NewsFriday, county leaders released a new emergency order allowing more things to be open. They had to clarify late Friday night what the governor's moving the rest of the state to phase three means for Broward.
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NewsThe Broward County School Board meets Tuesday starting at 10 a.m. Then, county commissioners meet to hear from the public and vote on a budget for next year starting at 5 p.m.
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NewsAfter residents continued to plead for the city to fund water quality testing, the city announced last week they are working on an arrangement with a Miami water nonprofit.
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NewsThe SoFIA - South Florida Institute On Aging - has adapted its foster grandparent program to go virtual with weekly 'Reading With Grandma' videos.
