Eileen Kelley

Mar 28, 2025 | news.wgcu.org | Eileen Kelley

Operation Green Light is underway the following days across Southwest Florida: CHARLOTTE: 3/31-4/4COLLIER: 4/2-4/3DESOTO: 3/29 & 3/31-4/4GLADES: 4/7HARDEE: 3/31 - 4/4HIGHLANDS : 4/3- 4/4 & 4/7HENDRY: 3/31-4/4LEE: 4/2 - 4/4 & 4/7-4/11OKEECHOBEE: 3/31-4/1SARASOTA: 4/3-4/4 Suspended license or over-due traffic ticket got you down? You may be able to catch a break. This time each year, counties across the state participate in what's called Operation Green Light.

Mar 26, 2025 | news.wgcu.org | Eileen Kelley

More than 1,000 people move to Florida each day. And, make no doubt about it, from those newcomers to hurricane-battered coastal residents development is moving inland. In Southwest Florida, the remaining pockets of land for cattle and horse are threatened as segments of Old Florida, homesteaded for generations, are vanishing as new development replaces them. There's a large tract of undeveloped land not too far from the Lee County Civic Center.

Mar 16, 2025 | news.wgcu.org | Eileen Kelley

Arguing the termination of Temporary Protected Status for non-citizen Haitians in the United State was unlawful, harmful, out of its purview when proper steps are not taken, a group of attorneys, immigrant advocates and Haitians themselves are suing Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. This is Round 2 for many Haitians who originally faced deportations during the first Trump administration.

Feb 28, 2025 | news.wgcu.org | Eileen Kelley

They’ve held forums, gathered petitions, packed City Hall chambers and met individually with members of the city council all in the name of trying to stop the city of Cape Coral from allowing future development in an area they say is critical to the environment. Long time owners of this 350-acres in southwestern Cape Coral are hoping to convince the city to re-designate about a third of the property from its current status as a nature preserve to mixed use development.

Feb 24, 2025 | wusf.org | Eileen Kelley

The Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status for some 500,000 Haitians Thursday, meaning that as of early August, Haitians here with that status will no longer will be allowed to live and work in the U.S.The vast majority of Haitians under TPS status live and work in Florida. About 30,000 Haitians under TPS, humanitarian parole or asylum are in Southwest Florida. They are working in health care, hospitality and the housing market.