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WLRN earned 14 awards in the Florida News Awards competition for journalism produced in 2021, including Overall Station of the Year. Sundial's Leslie Ovalle is the top radio producer in the state.
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For a long time, big decisions that affected the health of Floridians came from county-run health departments. Aiming for more equity, Democrats funneled that power to the state, and somewhere along the way, Republicans embraced big government.
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The polls are open in Palm Beach and Broward Counties. We meet a border writer who is in the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. Plus, what if local businesses could influence local laws simply by filing lawsuits?
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Two proposed state laws would allow businesses to sue and block local rules that hurt their profits. Local government officials say that's interfering with what people want in their own neighborhoods — and putting local taxpayers on the hook for damages. This is an episode from the WLRN podcast Tallahassee Takeover.
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Two proposed state laws would allow businesses to sue and block local rules that hurt their profits. Local government officials say that's interfering with what people want in their own neighborhoods — and putting local taxpayers on the hook for damages.
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Dubbing it the “Local Business Protection Act,” the Florida Senate on Thursday passed a controversial bill that could lead to businesses filing lawsuits against cities and counties.
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Growing up when one of your parents is behind bars happens more often than you might think. We’re going to hear from one young man who has had that experience and a group here in South Florida reaching out to those kids to mentor them. Plus, we’ll hear the latest episode of WLRN’s podcast Tallahassee Takeover.
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The year-end episode of The Florida Roundup has stories from public radio reporters throughout the The Sunshine State.
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This summer, Miami joined cities across the state in pledging to lower its greenhouse gas emissions in order to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, which could swamp Florida’s coasts with a few feet of sea rise by mid-century. But Miami’s plan, like others across the state, was weakened by a set of new state laws that block municipalities from regulating fossil fuels in their own communities.
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Key West locals who voted for limits on the cruise industry gathered with signs saying "stop the silt" and "no big ships" as the Norwegian Dawn pulled in.
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With Florida on the frontlines of sea level rise and the impacts of climate change, a lot of local governments are stepping up and trying to reduce carbon emissions on their own. But what happens when the state government has other ideas?
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Cruise ships recently returned to Key West. The big ships once brought nearly a million people a year to the island. In late March of last year, the pandemic put a stop to cruising. Since then, even though the ships weren't calling, cruising has been a hot topic on the island.