The South Florida Roundup

This week on The Florida Roundup ... Miami-Dade County Major Carlos Gimenez's decision to comply with President Trump's immigration detention order has sparked protests and call s to put it to a County Commission vote. We speak with Esteban Bovo, Chairman of the County Commission, about that impending meeting. Listen here: From downtown Miami to Palm Beach County, parks to airports, crowds have gathered around South Florida voicing opposition to President Trump's immigration executive orders as

This week on The Florida Roundup ... In the past decade, more than 850 children and teenagers were rushed to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

This week on The Florida Roundup ... The Obama administration repealed the "wet foot, dry foot" policy for Cubans. This ends a special privilege that allowed Cubans who make it to U.S. sand or soil to stay.

This week on The Florida Roundup ... Amendment 2, the measure legalizing medical marijuana went into effect this week . The amendment garnered more than 70 percent approval by the voters. But, the legislature must come up with the rules and regulations on how patients can use that medicine. We ask Health News Florida's Abe Aboraya and the Tampa Bay Times Michael Auslen the what to expect from lawmakers. Listen here: Also, a recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association links

This week on The Florida Roundup ... 2016 was the year that defied predictions, but that won't stop our panel of journalists from making some forecasts for the upcoming year.

This week on The Florida Roundup ... 2016 was a big year. It played host to a long contentious and historic election with Donald Trump winning the presidency--with a big hand from Florida.

This week on The Florida Roundup ... An investigation into Florida's sentencing system uncovers a racial bias in the courts. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune's special project examined 12 years worth of criminal cases to find Florida judges routinely give longer sentences to black defendants than to white defendants for crimes like robbery, burglary and felony drug crimes. We speak with the paper's investigative reporter Josh Salman and Capital Bureau Chief for The Miami Herald Mary Ellen Klas about

This week on The Florida Roundup ... A new study done by Florida International University's Metropolitan Center has found that despite steady wage increases for women in Miami-Dade County, women still make less in the workplace. The study is called The Status of Women in Miami-Dade County . It shows women in Miami-Dade earn 87 cents for every dollar men earn. That pay gap is less than the national average--79 cents on the dollar--and has been narrowing over the years. Still, despite improvements

This week on The Florida Roundup ... News of the death of Fidel Castro set in motion celebrations in the streets on Miami, but it also gave rise to complex emotions across generations for Cuban-Americans and others in South Florida. We look at the reactions, as well as how South Florida media prepared for years to cover this story. As his ashes make his way from Havana to Santiago, we speak with WLRN's Americas correspondent Tim Padgett about reactions to Fidel's death in the island. We also

This week on The Florida Roundup... WLRN's Tom Hudson was live from the Miami Book Fair with a panel of authors from across the state to ponder a future in the age of Trump.