Miami-Dade County

Alex Segura, author of Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, joins Carlos Frías to talk about how the Miami Heat and his childhood comic book store still inspire him.

Raegan Miller said local school officials' process to remove Amanda Gorman's poem, along with several books, lacked transparency and amounted to censorship.

This week on the South Florida Roundup we held our annual post-legislative session discussion with the editorial page editors of South Florida’s three major newspapers. We examined the immigration crackdown (1:00) and the effects measures like abortion restriction will have in South Florida (19:14), as well as what this all may mean for Gov. Ron DeSantis if he seeks the Republican nomination for President (34:27).

Tri-Rail undergoes its first train design in more than 20 years as commuter ridership increases by 25%.

Senate Bill 1586 would override much of the relationship between Florida landlords and tenants, including the tenants bill of rights ordinances in Miami-Dade and Hillsborough counties

Following WLRN’s reporting on the Guardianship Program’s sale of its wards' properties to Express Homes — owned by Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez' husband Carlos Morales — officials launched an investigation. Now we have found Gallego Homes, owned by Méndez' mother Margarita, also made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling homes purchased from the nonprofit.

The county's actions follows a WLRN report that found the Guardianship Program sold properties of people under its care since 2011 to the same realty company.

For the first time in two decades, South Florida turned red in the 2022 midterm elections, giving Republicans hope — and a playbook — for the presidential election in 2024.

The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing announcement comes the same month WLRN and Bloomberg Law published stories showing a lack of oversight and accountability in guardianship programs

A countywide group of churches, synagogues, mosques and religious universities invited Miami-Dade County elected officials to hold their feet to the fire on trees — particularly in under-served communities.

She directed the county to pause grant funding for the Guardianship Program of Dade County pending an independent investigation of its real estate transactions.

A WLRN investigation found the nonprofit sold homes of clients to Express Homes — owned by Carlos Morales, husband of Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez — which resold several properties within days.