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Miami-Dade County Police Department./Miami HeraldOn The South Florida Roundup, we examined the controversial body camera footage that’s gripped our community. What does last Sunday’s traffic stop involving Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill remind us about our police – and ourselves (01:11)? We also looked at some new WLRN reporting on what climate change is doing to the mahi mahi we so much love to catch and eat (20:45). And we discussed the deplorable lie Donald Trump and his campaign spread about Haitians in Ohio that resonates here (34:59). -
Adrian Diaz-Sieckel/Miami Herald fileSome blame new state condo laws, which changed in response to the Surfside condo building collapse of 2021, for causing the current condo crisis.
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The results of the Florida primary elections showed Miami-Dade County residents want a change when it comes to the county’s public transit system. -
On the South Florida Roundup we looked at the impact of two results from Tuesday’s primary election: Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s landslide re-election – and landslide approval of a call for expanded Miami-Dade rapid transit (01:10). We also examined why elite Vanderbilt University is opening an unusual satellite campus in Palm Beach County (20:18). And we discussed the drug trafficking and gang sponsorship sanctions the U.S. just slapped on former Haitian President Michel Martelly (34:58). -
With Florida's primary elections taking place Tuesday, Broward County voters will weigh in for the first time on two school board seats whose current members were appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. -
On the South Florida Roundup the WLRN team previewed Tuesday’s primary election for South Florida. And we talked about a lot more than sheriffs. In Miami-Dade County voters are weighing in on a mayor – and Joe Carollo’s gym equipment (01:06). In Broward County, Sheriff Gregory Tony faces real competition and most of the embattled school board’s seats are up for grabs, too (21:58). And in Palm Beach County, there’s a race to replace the first Haitian-American commissioner (34:49). -
As a new school year comes to a start, South Florida schools wrestle with everything from metal detectors, enrollment and a new law that will change school start times by the 2026-27 school year. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, classes start Monday, in Monroe County they start on Wednesday, and in Miami-Dade County the first bell rings Thursday. -
On the South Florida Roundup, we dove into the new school year with a panel of some of the region’s best education journalists (01:10) and, more importantly, a teacher (33:47). We looked at urgent security issues like the current metal detectors debate, whether or not we’ve put the classroom culture wars behind us, the charter and private schools boom and a new law that may have the little kids starting school at the crack of dawn – while the teenagers sleep in. Put on your backpack and get ready for the bell. -
In the face of one of Latin America’s most brazen cases of electoral fraud, Venezuelans and the international community are grappling with how to address the ongoing crisis in this South American nation. -
On the South Florida Roundup we assessed what if anything the U.S., the international community and the diaspora here can do to dislodge Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from power after his allegedly massive voter fraud (01:09). We also examined an Inspector General report that bears out WLRN's probe of Miami-Dade County's Guardianship Program for the vulnerable and elderly (19:45). And, we looked at a push in places like Palm Beach County to bring moviemaking back to the Sunshine State (35:33). -
Following a 2018 ballot amendment, every county now needs to elect five totally independent “constitutional offices,” which include sheriff, clerk of courts, property appraiser, tax collector and supervisor of elections. This is how the changes will affect Broward and Miami-Dade residents. -
On the South Florida Roundup, we looked at the new independent constitutional offices voters in Broward and Miami-Dade counties will have to vote for in the August primary elections, and what do they mean for the way local government works (01:06). We also examined the state regulations passed after the Surfside condo collapse, which are coming into effect soon — and they are already impacting the real estate market (17:40). And we looked ahead to Venezuela’s presidential election on Sunday. Will the Maduro regime allow an honest vote to take place? (32:53)
