Daniel Rivero
Investigative ReporterDaniel Rivero is part of WLRN's new investigative reporting team. Before joining WLRN, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
He can be reached at drivero@wlrnnews.org
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Compared to early 2021, Miami-Dade County has now doubled its investment into affordable and workforce housing projects — at a time when median monthly rent for a one-bedroom is just under $2,700. -
South Florida is in the epicenter of a cost of living crisis, driven by the exploding cost of housing while wages lag far behind. WLRN has compiled resources for those seeking assistance either with renting or for potentially owning a home.
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United Teachers of Dade did not reach the 60% threshold of dues-paying members required by a contentious new state law. It could have a major impact on one of the largest unions in Florida, and the single largest employer in Miami-Dade County.
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Florida taxpayer-owned Citizens Insurance is using unlicensed inspectors in a little-known program that is ramping up inspections, WLRN found. Homeowners and industry insiders say the move is alarming.
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At the Arsht Center, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and four presidential candidates squared off to prove to Republican voters who was more worthy of their party’s nomination. In Hialeah, former President Donald Trump rallied his legions of supporters and railed against his GOP rivals and President Biden.
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El trabajo de Amaury Pacheco en la escena artística independiente cubana le puso en el punto de mira del gobierno comunista. Ahora, está construyendo una nueva vida en Miami gracias al histórico programa de proceso probatorio de la administración de Biden.
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Amaury Pacheco's work in the Cuban independent arts scene put him in the crosshairs of the Communist government. Now, he's building a new life in Miami under the Biden administration's historic humanitarian parole program.
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Los ucranianos y afganos que reciben la oportunidad del proceso probatorio de la administración de Biden pueden trabajar en cuanto llegan a EEUU. Para los cubanos, haitianos, nicaragüenses y venezolanos, la espera para trabajar legalmente puede durar muchos meses.
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Ukrainians and Afghans who receive humanitarian parole can work the moment they arrive in the U.S. For Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, the wait to legally work can take many months.
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A government shutdown could disrupt federal programs and federal employees like TSA agents in South Florida who are forced to work without pay.
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"When you have an enormous amount of resources that go into developing single family homes at the expense of multi-family housing, that's where the issue is. Just cost effectiveness," said Robin Bachin, of the University of Miami.
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Residents pushed the county to fund $5 million in rental assistance and eviction prevention programs — a drop in the record $11.7 billion proposed budget — as they sounded the alarm on the unaffordable cost of housing in a place that has become the epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis.
