The South Florida Roundup

Friday on WLRN (co-produced with WJCT) "The Florida Roundup: Statewide Edition" premiered. Each week WLRN's Tom Hudson and WJCT's Melissa Ross , along with a panel of journalists from around the state, discuss the week in Florida news. Here's what the The Florida Roundup: Statewide Edition will cover. Tune in every Friday at 1 p.m. on 91.3FM

This week's guests on The Florida Roundup with host Tom Hudson include: Marc Caputo, Politico Nancy Dahlberg, The Miami Herald Andy Reid, The Sun-Sentinel Editoral Board Patricia Mazzei, The Miami Herald Tim Padgett, WLRN Joey Flechas, The Miami Herald More than two weeks after Hurricane Irma, piles of debris remain on sidewalks, corners and parking lots across South Florida. As trees limbs and palm fronds along with busted fences and broken patio furniture await cleanup crews, the statewide

The Florida Roundup concentrated this week on the recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma. Guests included: Rosemary O'Hara, editorial page editor for The Sun Sentinel Rick Christie, editorial page editor for The Palm Beach Post Jim DeFede, CBS4 reporter & host of Facing South Florida The death toll reaches 11 from a sweltering nursing home in Hollywood that lost power during Hurricane Irma. State regulators are blaming the home's owner for not taking care of its patients after the facility

This week’s guests on The Florida Roundup with host Luis Hernandez: Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald John Morales, Chief Meteorologist at NBC 6 Miami Eliot Kleinberg, Palm Beach Post Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald Lulu Ramadan, Palm Beach Post Joey Flechas, Miami Herald Tens of thousands of Haitians are living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The status was provided after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 300,000 people. That protection will run out in

This week’s guests on The Florida Roundup with host Tom Hudson: Manny Garcia - East Region Executive Editor, USA TODAY Network Nancy Ancrum - Editorial Page Editor, The Miami Herald Rick Christie - Editorial Page Editor, The Palm Beach Post This week, the University of Florida (UF) rejected a request by a white supremacist group to speak on campus next month. The speaker, Richard Spencer, was one of the organizers behind last weekend’s march in Charlottesville, VA that turned deadly. “We’re very

This week on The Florida Roundup , host Tom Hudson, Miami Herald reporter Patricia Mazzei and WLRN's Tim Padgett discuss how Venezuela's crisis impacts policy and politics in South Florida. Also part of the conversation: This week's torrential downpours overwhelmed some local flood control efforts, and what would South Beach look like if voters choose to move up last call? Listen: As Venezuela moves to seat a new constitutional assembly after a widely disputed vote, the push to tighten U.S.

Palm Beach County prosecutors have dropped a case looking into voter fraud over absentee ballots in a County Commission and state House election last August. Investigators with the State Attorney's Office found more than 20 fake signatures forged on request forms for absentee ballots. A team of detectives looked into the case over the past year, but could not identify a suspect to accuse. @lmower3 says this has nothing to do w/ Trump, but instead it was an orchestrated campaign to generate

This week on the Florida Roundup, Tom Hudson spoke with Palm Beach Post reporter Lawrence Mower and Sergio Bustos, senior editor with Politifact Florida, about claims of voter fraud in South Florida. Also discussed: the environmental problems that came from a very wet rainy season and this weekend's controversial vote in Venezuela. Evidence of voter fraud is found in Palm Beach County, but not a suspect, while Broward County is accused of not doing enough to make sure its voting rolls are

This week on the Florida Roundup, host Tom Hudson, Miami Dade Commission Chairman Esteban Bovo and Miami Herald reporter Doug Hanks addressed the county mayor's change of heart that led him to come out in support of rapid transit buses . Also discussed: A new law in South Miami that requires all homes to install solar panels, and how local cities are responding to the opioid crisis in South Florida. What’s the smart way to get Miami-Dade moving on public transit, new train lines or fast bus

This week on The Florida Roundup ... The state finds itself as a defendant in one lawsuit as well as in another soon-to-come lawsuit. We're joined by the Miami Herald's Mary Ellen Klas and Gary Fineout with the Associated Press to discuss a week of legal action in Florida. The Broward County Public School Board became the first school district in the state to move forward with plans to challenge Florida's major new education law in court. One of the law's measures allows charter schools to