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This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke with Rep. Vicki Lopez, who is the co-chair of a new House select committee that will consider proposals aimed at reducing property taxes (00:00). Then, we spoke with an abortion provider in North Florida about the impact of Florida’s 6-week ban (19:22). Plus, we asked the Tampa Bay Times’ Romy Ellenbogen about a new law that will make it more difficult for citizens to get constitutional amendments on the ballot (28:05). And later, we bring you the news of the week, including a breakdown of Florida’s foreign trade zones (37:16), an update on presidential searches at UF and FIU (44:36), and an investigation into a deadly bear attack in Southwest Florida (47:32).

The unrelated killings of two young men, two state government controversies, election developments and a multi-fatality car crash made up the top 10…

Alberto Moscoso, the chief public information officer for the Florida Department of Health throughout the pandemic, bowed out Nov. 6 amid a reshuffling of personnel at the state agency. He would not elaborate on why he left, or where he was going.

For some insight into the fighter pilot culture, Linda talks with Captain Rosemary Mariner, a retired Navy Captain Aviator. She was trained to fly planes like the fighter that collided with the US reconnaissance plane. Mariner is now a Research Fellow for the University of Tennessee, Center for the Study for War and Society.

(6-28-2017) Today’s Topical Currents is an “At Your Service” edition, with social media law attorney, author, professor & consultant, Ethan Wall. He’s a…

Surprise, anger, parenting and Lizzo: That's one way to sum up the list of the most engaging stories in 2019. Other big topics included consumerism and climate change — and officials behaving badly.

Sinner accepted the ban in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency. The timing of the ban means the 23-year-old Italian won't miss any Grand Slam tournaments.

On the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, South Florida's myriad Capitol rioters are awaiting trial, serving out sentences or getting into politics.

More people from Florida face charges from the attack than from any other state. Why has Florida become a hotspot for these extremist groups and others who took part in the insurrection?

Please click listen to hear the audio. You can "right click" to save as an mp3 to your computer. Radyo Lekol Audio week of May 6, 2013.

Also: Bank of America agrees to pay billions to Fannie Mae; oil rig that ran aground off Alaska is refloated; Syrian opposition rejects Assad's "peace plan;" NHL players and owners reach tentative deal, season may start soon; NFL playoffs get underway.

Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It's called wage theft. But in California, the worst offender has paid only a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars in wages he owes workers.

You may have heard kids say "six, seven". We unpack what's behind the latest slang making waves in playgrounds and online.

Syrian President Bashar Assad's Instagram account includes images of his smiling first lady. It makes no mention of the country's civil war. Instead, it show his wife helping out in a soup kitchen, and congratulating top achieving students.

Cookbook author Diane Morgan says there's much more to a carrot than the orange part. But too often, she says, the root vegetable's frilly green fronds end up in the trash.

Listen to South Florida news as heard on WLRN in Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The latest on former president Donald Trump winning Florida, the six proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot and other local races.

Val Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies.

Listen to South Florida news as heard on WLRN in Morning Edition and All Things Considered. The latest on a state-ordered review of allegations of ethical breaches by three Broward School Board members finding no wrongdoing, and new investment is flowing toward a new Black history museum in a historic neighborhood in West Palm Beach.

Listen to South Florida news as heard on WLRN in Morning Edition. The latest on four Delray Beach firefighters being placed on administrative leave days after a fire-rescue truck collided with a Brightline train, and a new ethics report providing more details on allegations that a South Florida congresswoman violated campaign finance rules.

Listen to South Florida news as heard on WLRN in Morning Edition. The latest on faulty elevators inside a Miami Hospital reportedly leading to several injuries over the course of two years, most Broward and Miami-Dade county homeowners with state-backed Citizens Property Insurance seeing lower premiums this year, and more.