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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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. -
The 2025 Point-in-Time Count of people experiencing homelessness will be conducted late this month -
Carla Reid passes the torch to Hannah Cummings -
The citizen group Apalachicola Riverkeeper has challenged the Department of Environmental Protection to prevent drilling in the floodplain. -
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has okayed a draft permit, and Apalachicola Riverkeeper is challenging it -
In the 16 counties the food bank serves, over half of the residents are living paycheck-to-paycheck. -
She hopes that will allow more young people with small children to run for public office