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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The federal government is currently doing more than ten times the enforcement of existing child labor law compared to Florida, even though Florida law is currently more strict than the federal government. Now, some lawmakers want to weaken Florida child labor law.
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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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Florida taxpayer-owned Citizens Insurance is using unlicensed inspectors in a little-known program that is ramping up inspections, WLRN found. Homeowners and industry insiders say the move is alarming.
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After weeks of asking, neither the Florida Department of State nor the Florida Department of Corrections was able to deny or confirm if Republican congressional candidate Jason Mariner cast a legal ballot or not.
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Sam Accursio, a longtime farmer of land in South Dade, destroyed much of his harvest. Paying workers to pick the produce didn’t make financial sense if there was nowhere to sell it to and local food banks were already overwhelmed with the amount of local produce they were given. Then he had an idea.
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Thirty three state legislature seats were not contested by Democrats. Now, only one seat is not being contested by a Democrat. The Democratic Party is focusing a huge amounts of resources on flipping three Republican-held Senate seats into Democratic hands.
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The state went looking for Chinese communist companies to hold accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic. It hasn't found any.
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The trial comes after Florida voters in 2018 overwhelmingly approved an amendment to restore voting rights to most people with felony convictions. Then state lawmakers tried to scale the law back.
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The implementation of a law that allows some felons to vote is playing out in very different — and partisan — ways across the state.
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Sixty-four Cuban nationals were deported in fiscal year 2016. Two years later, the number was 463, a more than sevenfold increase, as U.S. policies have toughened toward Cuban immigrants.
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The incoming Florida governor and other politicians in the state say they will need to weigh-in before the amendment passed by voters in Nov., giving voting rights back to felons, is implemented.