Daniel Rivero
Daniel Rivero is a reporter and producer for WLRN, covering Latino and criminal justice issues. Before joining the team, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
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A 2023 law that heavily regulates how Florida’s public universities interact with “countries of concern" like China and Cuba has led to FIU closing its largest international campus and blocked the hiring of foreign talent. “It really pushes us further away from FIU’s historic mission," one professor said.
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An investigation by member station WRLN found that 40,000 public service employees have lost union representation because of a new Florida law that makes it harder to collect dues.
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Starting on New Year’s Day, shell companies and LLCs that do business in the US will have to fully disclose who is behind them and who actually owns the assets.
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Starting immediately, the almost 10,000 volunteers who have helped gather signatures to protect the right to abortions will begin to focus on the next phase: Convincing people to actually show up and vote next November.
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Civilian-run police oversight panels in South Florida and across the state could all be at risk under HB 601. Advocates say the prospective ban would betray efforts to foster better relations and trust among police and communities.
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Ukrainians and Afghans who receive humanitarian parole can work the moment they arrive in the U.S. For Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, the wait to legally work can take many months.
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Los ucranianos y afganos que reciben la oportunidad del proceso probatorio de la administración de Biden pueden trabajar en cuanto llegan a EEUU. Para los cubanos, haitianos, nicaragüenses y venezolanos, la espera para trabajar legalmente puede durar muchos meses.
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"When you have an enormous amount of resources that go into developing single family homes at the expense of multi-family housing, that's where the issue is. Just cost effectiveness," said Robin Bachin, of the University of Miami.
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Ben Crump’s career intertwines with some of the most hotly contested episodes in recent U.S. history.
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The findings reflect more than two decades of shortcomings and lack of oversight from the county government.