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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Rosie Cordero-Stutz was elected as the first Miami-Dade sheriff in 59 years with 55% of the vote in November, after receiving an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump. -
With the new sheriff's office, Miami-Dade County will face changes in policing. Unincorporated areas may see the starkest change with the sheriff outside county oversight. -
Camillus House CEO Eddie Gloria is taking steps to reduce beds, saying the organization has been stretched past capacity for too long. -
Less than half of the money given to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund in recent years for similar projects has been used. Commissioner Damian Pardo says this time will be different. -
“The idea is to use this building to break that cycle and actually shrink over time, significantly, the homeless population," Judge Steve Leifman said about the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery, which is gearing up to open. -
Pervasive issues of low pay, low access to healthcare and benefits and work conditions are highlighted in a survey of 302 South Florida construction workers. -
The city says it is making progress, but most days the city-owned and operated Tower Theater offers no events for the public, a big change from the past. -
More than 60 years after being built, Miami Marine Stadium has been abandoned by the city — and has been abandoned for longer than it was operational. -
Not much information exists about the state of local artists. The new Miami Artist Census hopes to change that, and through information, empower artists. -
The Miami-Dade commission voted today to allow the county Homeless Trust to buy a hotel in Cutler Bay that will be used as permanent housing for 130 elderly homeless residents. -
More people have been booked into jail for illegal camping so far in 2024 than in the previous eight years combined, according to a WLRN analysis. Much of the increase is driven by a law passed late last year in Miami Beach, which let police make arrests of homeless residents who do not accept shelter. A statewide law is set to go into effect on Oct. 1. -
Miami-Dade believes it has cleared the legal hurdles needed to start construction on a revamped version of the Coconut Grove Playhouse. The proposed budget puts money towards construction in the coming year. The total project cost is estimated at $57.2 million.
