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6 days ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper
About 1,000 students a year from across Miami-Dade County come to the Miami Music Project to learn a new instrument, get their homework done in a safe environment and pick up valuable life skills. It’s just one of several arts education programs in South Florida that were told via email late last week that they may no longer receive grant funding from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA).
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6 days ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper
A fire currently blazing near Florida City is impacting traffic in and out of the Florida Keys. There are lengthy delays in both directions on Card Sound Road and the 18-mile stretch of U.S. 1, as responding fire crews must block traffic. The fire has burned through 350 acres and is 25% contained as of early this morning, according to the Florida Forest Service. This comes after a fire in March burned more than 20,000 acres for days, causing serious impacts to the area.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper
Several South Florida hospitals have accused a national watchdog group of publishing misleading safety rankings. The five Palm Beach County-based hospitals recently filed a lawsuit against the nonprofit the Leapfrog Group. Each hospital is owned by the for-profit company, Tenet Healthcare. They allege Leapfrog Group pressures hospitals to volunteer their data and to pay for memberships.
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1 week ago | 
kbindependent.org | Julia Cooper
Coinciding with ‘May Day’ protests across the country against the Trump administration, workers in Miami’s hospitality industry rallied Thursday for a union contract that would include increased workplace protections and fairer wages. Hundreds of workers and union supporters from Miami-Dade and Broward trotted into downtown Miami to support the rally. “I have a family, I have a partner and I need to pay my mortgage,” said Jose Barbato, a banquet server at Hyatt Regency Miami.
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1 week ago | 
miamitimesonline.com | Julia Cooper
Coinciding with ‘May Day’ protests across the country against the Trump administration, workers in Miami’s hospitality industry rallied Thursday for a union contract that would include increased workplace protections and fairer wages. Hundreds of workers and union supporters from Miami-Dade and Broward trotted into downtown Miami to support the rally. “I have a family, I have a partner and I need to pay my mortgage,” said Jose Barbato, a banquet server at Hyatt Regency Miami.
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1 week ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper
Coinciding with ‘May Day’ protests across the country against the Trump administration, workers in Miami’s hospitality industry rallied Thursday for a union contract that would include increased workplace protections and fairer wages. Hundreds of workers and union supporters from Miami-Dade and Broward trotted into downtown Miami to support the rally. “I have a family, I have a partner and I need to pay my mortgage,” said Jose Barbato, a banquet server at Hyatt Regency Miami.
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2 weeks ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper
A bill currently making its way through the Florida legislature has drawn contempt from City of Miami Beach leaders who say it would threaten the area’s iconic Art Deco architecture. The Florida legislature is considering an expansion of 2023's Live Local Act, which offered incentives for developers and eased regulations for new residential construction if they included at least 40% workforce and affordable units in new developments.
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2 weeks ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper
Amid South Florida’s ongoing affordable-housing crisis, developers and top Miami-Dade officials on Monday broke ground on the redevelopment of an aging, public housing complex in Homestead. The redevelopment project is the first of three phases of an affordable housing community in South Miami-Dade being called Homestead Gardens. The project will have more than 160 units, with at least half set aside for low-income and Section 8-eligible residents.
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3 weeks ago | 
wlrn.org | Julia Cooper |Jimena Romero
From Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade, 11 cities are celebrating their centennials in 2025 and 2026. WLRN News' series "History We Call Home" spotlights the moments, ideas and people that made these cities part of our community's fabric over the past century. They call themselves the “Church of the Open Door.”It was 100 years ago when the Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ opened its doors after finalizing construction.
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2 months ago | 
wusf.org | Julia Cooper
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is advising Miami-Dade County to stop the long-held practice of adding fluoride to municipal drinking water suppl, despite widespread opposition from dentists and national health organizations. Ladapo appeared before county’s committee on safety and health Tuesda with University of Florida professor Ashley J. Malin and two dentists to speak against fluoride in local water supplies. Malin's research focuses on the potential negative effects of fluoridation.