Margie Menzel
Margie 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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The state Department of Education just cut 30 percent of the funding for afterschool programs in 40 percent of the state’s school districts—with impacts coinciding on the first day of class -
In Leon, the 30 percent reduction mandated by the state amounts to about half a million dollars -
The United Way of the Big Bend honored her work during its annual giving campaign kickoff -
Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas blasted Leon County educators, saying they withheld state-allocated teacher raises -
The Leon County Sheriff's Office urges parents to have candid conversations with their kids about the consequences of taking weapons to school. -
‘His policy successes became the building blocks for a generation of conservative governance’ -
The shelter is partnering with Doctors United to provide onsite primary health care -
His storied career included serving as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and as a state senator. -
The money had been slated for the afterschool program that many working families rely on -
Some said bears are growing in numbers; others said that can be managed by securing trash, not hunting
