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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Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, stopped in Fort Myers Tuesday to talk about election wait times. His visit coincided with the release of a congressional… -
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Charlie Crist kicked-off his ten-day “Kitchen Table Tour” Monday. Crist is traveling the state talking to middle-class… -
A fight between state officials and a Texas-based oil company continues to play itself out in public meetings.The Dan A. Hughes Company announced Tuesday… -
The Lee County School Board’s effort to opt-out of state testing has hit a rough patch. However, anti-high stakes testing momentum has continued to grow… -
A new environmental report predicts nearly half of the bird species currently living in North America—including many in Florida could lose significant… -
Collier officials voted to drop their lawsuit against the state’s environmental agency Tuesday. County commissioners said they are hoping instead to… -
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi made a stop in Naples Friday in an ongoing effort to reach out to senior citizens across the state about consumer… -
A federal judge ruled Thursday BP was grossly negligent in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The ruling could result in billions of dollars in… -
Lee County’s School Board reversed last week’s decision opting the district out of state-mandated testing Tuesday.Parents and activists crowded Lee… -
There are still a lot of unknowns following Lee County’s historic decision on Wednesday to opt out of state-mandated testing.Superintendent Nancy Graham…
