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Ezra David Romero

Ezra David Romero is an award-winning radio reporter and producer. His stories have run on Morning Edition, Morning Edition Saturday, Morning Edition Sunday, All Things Considered, Here & Now, The Salt, Latino USA, KQED, KALW, Harvest Public Radio, etc.

Firefighters from Iona McGregor Fire District, aided by neighboring fire departments, fought a fire in a pile of Hurricane Ian debris pile early Thursday morning along Summerlin Road at Wa-Ka Hatchee Park near Lexington Middle School.

Lee schools get some of $25M for workforce development initiatives

Governor Ron DeSantis announced an investment of nearly $25 million from the Workforce Development Capitalization Incentive Grant Program to either create or expand 19 programs dedicated to strengthening workforce development across Florida.

Neil Durrant, History Librarian for Charlotte County, along with Jennifer Zoebelein, Historian for Charlotte County, put together the displays at the libraries. Charlotte County Libraries and History has put together a display and an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Charley. “The Landscape Was Changed Forever,” is an exhibit featuring interpretive banners and Charlotte County newspapers and books from the time of Hurricane Charley. The exhibit is on display at the Punta Gorda Charlotte, Port Charlotte and Englewood Charlotte Libraries through Sept. 2024, and are available for viewing during regular library hours. On August 13th, 2024, a loop of national news footage will be shown, 20 years since the day Charley made landfall, and Charlotte County History Services staff will be on hand to answer questions.

Twenty years later Charley lives on; Punta Gorda remembers well and takes a pensive look back

Neil Durrant moved to Charlotte County in 2019 and it didn’t take him long to learn about Hurricane Charley.“It was one of those central moments,” he said. “There was before Charley and there’s after Charley. Charley wasn’t just an event, it is always going to be a big part of Punta Gorda’s history, Charlotte County’s history. It’s always going to be one of those standout moments.

Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden arrive for a drive-in campaign rally at Bucks County Community College on Oct. 24 in Bristol, Pa. Bucks County and three other suburban Philadelphia counties helped the president-elect win the swing state.

Philadelphia's Suburbs Helped Deliver Crucial Pennsylvania For Biden

In the four suburban counties that ring Philadelphia, Joe Biden topped President Trump by more than 280,000 votes.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez has struck a deal with Florida Power and Light to use treated wastewater to freshen cooling canals, pictured here in 2016, at the Turkey Point nuclear plant.

Miami-Dade, FPL pitch deal to use treated sewage to fix nuclear cooling canals

Miami-Dade County’s mayor and Florida Power and Light have hatched a plan, likely costing hundreds of millions of dollars, to solve a looming offshore...

Rekindling a love for reading in Southwest Florida

Following a lengthy renovation, Lee County's South County Regional Library reopened. The return couldn’t come at a better time, since reading among Floridians has been on the decline.

Map of red tide off Tampa Bay and Sarasota beaches

Red tide receding off Tampa Bay beaches, hanging around Sarasota

A report released Friday by state environmental officials shows high concentrations of the bloom that causes red tide were found far into the Gulf offshore of Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields announced a nighttime curfew for the county after gunfire damaged power substations.

Someone shot at substations in North Carolina, knocking out power for thousands

The authorities are investigating the mass power outage across Moore County as a criminal act after power substations were damaged by gunfire. The county implemented a nighttime curfew.

DOH Is Getting Out Of The Prenatal Care Business

Florida is one of only three states where county public health departments employ obstetricians for pregnant women. It’s a legacy of the 1990s, when...

Robie H. Harris's <em data-stringify-type="italic">It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health</em>; Isabel Wilkerson's <em data-stringify-type="italic">Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; Maurice Sendak's </em><em data-stringify-type="italic">In the Night Kitchen.</em>

In a lawsuit, a group of Texas library patrons says a book ban amounts to censorship

Llano County officials said they wanted to remove "pornographic" material from libraries but actually censored books based on political and religious grounds, the library patrons' lawsuit says.

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