Steve Newborn
Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.
He’s been with WUSF since 2001, and has covered events such as President George W. Bush’s speech in Sarasota as the Sept. 11 attacks unfolded; the ongoing drama over whether the feeding tube should be removed from Terri Schiavo; the arrest and terrorism trial of USF professor Sami Al-Arian; how the BP Deepwater Horizon spill affected Florida; and he followed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition through the state - twice.
Before joining WUSF, he covered environmental and Polk County news for the Tampa Tribune and worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during the early days of the space shuttle.
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It's one thing to talk about the degradation of our natural environment. It's another to see how it has progressed over time. We take a trip to the Chassahowitzka River to look at how photographs have been a witness to change over several decades. -
Florida's coral reef has been beset by warming seas and rampaging disease. Now, one study has found coral resistant to one of the deadliest diseases ever recorded. -
It has taken eight years to get federal approval for the demonstration project. But it could be a while before the pens are constructed in the Gulf. -
The new PAC plans to help educate the public and elected officials of the implications if the referendum to cut property taxes statewide passes in November. -
Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody joined Democrat Charlie Crist and other officials, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors to protest TSA's decision to book the rapper at the publicly owned stadium. -
Gov. Ron DeSantis will ask lawmakers to schedule a referendum in November to gradually eliminate most property taxes. -
Several bills coursing through Tallahassee have aroused the ire of many conservationists. But some bills also have their backing. -
Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia has written a bill introduced in the legislature that would increase penalties for undocumented workers. -
Lawmakers are back in Tallahassee this week for their annual session. Environmentalists are concerned about bills that would reduce local government control over pollution and new developments. -
The Trump administration wants to roll back protections for endangered and threatened species viewed as detrimental to economic growth. One critic says the proposals would have "destructive effects." -
Those ways could include steering more of the concession fee revenue back into each park. -
The Interior Department announced a second sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf, set for March. The sales stop at the Florida-Alabama state line.
