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April 27, 2015: Medicaid Expansion Advocates Send Loud Message To Lawmakers

Today on WLRN-Miami Herald News, you heard:

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9:35 Nearly one in five Florida students attends a for-profit college -- 300,000 total. Many for-profit colleges specialize in training students for a new career. But a year-long Miami Herald investigation finds some students at these schools claim they have been misled. Students have taken on tens of thousands in debt for a degree that may not guarantee a job. And it's all funded by millions in federal student loans.

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9:04 If you took a stroll through Delray Beach this weekend, you may have noticed a white chalk line on certain sidewalks and roads. The chalk was drawn on the line where scientists project flood waters will reach in the next major storm in an effort to raise sea-level rise awareness.

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8:43 Some Amendment 1 supporters say legislators 'thwarted the will of the voters.'

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8:30 This is the final week of the 60-day legislative session. But, it appears lawmakers will not be able to pass a balanced budget.

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8:20 A wide-ranging bill that would allow parents more freedom to choose where their children go to school passed the Florida House of Representatives Friday.

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8:04 As Florida politicians sprint to the end of the regularly scheduled Legislative session, advocates for Medicaid expansion are raising their voices an extra notch.

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7:43 Nearly one in five Florida students attends a for-profit college -- 300,000 total. Many for-profit colleges specialize in training students for a new career. But a year-long Miami Herald investigation finds some students at these schools claim they have been misled. Students have taken on tens of thousands in debt for a degree that may not guarantee a job. And it's all funded by millions in federal student loans

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7:30 It's been 15 years since U.S. federal agents took Elian Gonzalez from a relative's home in Little Havana and returned to Cuba.

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7:20 As part of O, Miami's poetry festival this month, we've asked you to write an ode to your zip code -- a five line poem using the numbers in your zipcode to determine how many words per line. You've delivered so far with more than 3,500 "zipodes."

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7:04 If you took a stroll through Delray Beach this weekend, you may have noticed a white chalk line on certain sidewalks and roads. The chalk was drawn on the line where scientists project flood waters will reach in the next major storm in an effort to raise sea-level rise awareness.

2015-04-27_643843_LH.mp3
6:43 Some Amendment 1 supporters say legislators 'thwarted the will of the voters.'

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6:30 This is the final week of the 60-day legislative session. But, it appears lawmakers will not be able to pass a balanced budget.

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6:20 A wide-ranging bill that would allow parents more freedom to choose where their children go to school passed the Florida House of Representatives Friday.

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6:04 As Florida politicians sprint to the end of the regularly scheduled Legislative session, advocates for Medicaid expansion are raising their voices an extra notch.

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