Margie Menzel
Public Accountability ReporterMargie Menzel covers local and state government for WFSU News. She has also worked at the News Service of Florida and Gannett News Service. She earned her B.A. in history at Vanderbilt University and her M.S. in journalism at Florida A&M University.
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"We’ve not seen temperatures like this in a long time” -
"Somebody had to go and tell the mom and dad they’re never going to hug their little baby ever again.” -
First responders make up 1.4 percent of Florida’s workforce, but their suicide rate is more than twice that of working-age Floridians -
Leon County and the city of Tallahassee have asked CSC-Leon to partner with them in funding nonprofits -
The agreement with the district gives experienced educators a raise of just over 3 percent. The pay boost does not include new teachers. -
Both schools have a wide array of workforce training programs -
The nation’s annual survey of homelessness will take place during the last full week of January. That’s when local social service agencies like the Big Bend Continuum of Care, fan out into communities to take stock of who is unsheltered. -
Miami-Dade County Judge Steve Leifman has stepped down from the bench after 30 years. He’s internationally known for developing major reforms of how the criminal justice system deals with people who have mental illnesses. -
The 2022 Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness says the fundamental solution to homelessness is affordable housing -
A fire that lit up a wooded area near Dunkin Donuts on Mahan Drive Wednesday morning was started by a homeless person trying to keep warm.
