Nancy Klingener
ReporterNancy Klingener covers the Florida Keys for WLRN. Since moving to South Florida in 1989, she has worked for the Miami Herald, Solares Hill newspaper and the Monroe County Public Library.
She is a Spring 2014 graduate of the Transom Story Workshop. She is on the board of the Key West Literary Seminar.
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NewsA Key West city park pavilion originally dedicated to Confederate soldiers has been renamed and rededicated — this time to 'One Human Family,' the Southernmost City's official motto. -
NewsThe city of Key West is scheduled to consider renaming and rededicating a pavilion in a city park that was built to honor the soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy — despite the fact that Key West stayed in Union hands throughout the Civil War.
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NewsAround the country, monuments celebrating Confederate leaders and slaveholders are being removed from public spaces. Key West has a Confederate memorial in a city park — and now a city commissioner wants to change its name.
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NewsIn the Florida Keys, health officials are fighting to stop the spread of COVID-19. But they've also got another fight on their hands. For the second time in a little more than a decade, there's an outbreak of dengue fever on the island chain.
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NewsA plan to allow extra building units in the Keys has hit a snag. After Hurricane Irma, the state proposed allowing an extra 1,300 units for affordable workforce housing — as long as the residents agreed to evacuate early for hurricanes.
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Local NewsThe low-lying Florida Keys are one of the nation's most vulnerable areas to rising seas. Monroe County officials are starting to look everywhere they can for money to help pay the bill.
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Local NewsA play streaming this week from The Studios of Key West recalls the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting most women the right to vote. "A Flourish of Hatpins" is about a family of women divided by politics during the suffrage movement.
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Local NewsKey West Mayor Teri Johnston won every precinct in the city to defeat two challengers Tuesday and win a second two-year-term.
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Local NewsThe Keys are set to become the first place in the U.S. to release genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the kind that can transmit diseases like Zika and dengue.
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Local NewsIn November, Key West residents will get a chance to re-shape the cruise industry in the port town. A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for cruise industry questions to go on the ballot.
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Local NewsThe Keys are facing some big bills to deal with rising seas. So the Monroe County Commission is looking — again — at an old idea to address these new challenges: putting a toll on the Overseas Highway.
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Local NewsAntibody testing in the Key Largo area has identified another 11 cases of dengue fever, bringing the total this year to 37.The cases had onset dates from…
