Steve Newborn
Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.
He’s been with WUSF since 2001, and has covered events such as President George W. Bush’s speech in Sarasota as the Sept. 11 attacks unfolded; the ongoing drama over whether the feeding tube should be removed from Terri Schiavo; the arrest and terrorism trial of USF professor Sami Al-Arian; how the BP Deepwater Horizon spill affected Florida; and he followed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition through the state - twice.
Before joining WUSF, he covered environmental and Polk County news for the Tampa Tribune and worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during the early days of the space shuttle.
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Those ways could include steering more of the concession fee revenue back into each park. -
The move comes after the Department of the Interior announced it would offer drilling leases starting in 2029, in areas where it had previously been banned. -
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced more than $100 million in grants Wednesday to improve drinking water supplies. He's also backing efforts to clean up springs and prevent algae blooms. -
The story of the Peace River is, in a sense, the story of Florida. Parts of it look like they did before Florida was developed. But it also bears the scars of a century and a half of exploitation. -
Political leaders from both sides of the aisle are opposing the plans to open up areas of the Gulf off Florida's coast for drilling. -
The bill has been introduced by Florida Sens. Ashley Moody and Rick Scott, and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century. -
Last year's hurricanes did more than swamp low-lying areas and flood homes. It also killed a lot of mangroves, acting as natural buffers along Sarasota Bay. -
Biologists have shown that an attempt at genetic rescue for the Florida panther 30 years ago has been a success. -
Fried talks about possibly opening the Democratic primaries to independent voters, the power of talking to people where they live and rebranding a party that hasn't had a governor elected since Lawton Chiles in 1994.
