Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez is a reporter forWGCUNews. A native of Miami, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism degree.
Previously, Lopez was a reporter for Miami's NPR member station, WLRN-MiamiHerald News. Before that, she was a reporter at The Florida Independent. She also interned for Talking Points Memo in New York City andWUNCin Durham, North Carolina. She also freelances as a reporter/blogger for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
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Floridians are casting final votes on this year’s gubernatorial election. Southwest Florida saw some high absentee and early voting numbers ahead of the… -
Among the very few contested seats in Southwest Florida this November is Florida House District 76. In this race, environmental issues like fracking and… -
Most of Southwest Florida’s state and federal political districts sit in heavily-Republican areas. Coupled with the fact that this is a midterm election,… -
Lee County voters are deciding this week whether or not to change the make-up of the school board. The change could make the school district, which has… -
Florida’s 2014 Gubernatorial Election, which has garnered a lot of national attention, is less than a week away. The state’s voters are being inundated… -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQFrG7E6B_Yhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZf47YsJMQThe Latino vote has been heavily courted during this election cycle.… -
A craft brewery on the Treasure Coast is fighting Florida's growler ban in federal court. The owners, along with a national legal group, filed a civil… -
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed another motion Friday that continues the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.In August, a federal judge in… -
Gov. Rick Scott stopped in Naples to cast his vote Thursday. He was also in town to kick off his “Get Out the Early Vote Bus Tour” for the last leg of his… -
U.S. Rep. Curt Clawson, R-Naples, spoke to a large group of health care workers with the Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida during an event in…
