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Each week, journalists and newsmakers from South Florida analyze and debate some of the most topical issues from across the region.

  1. 2D AGO

    Encore: 'History We Call Home: 100 Years of South Florida'

    In a re-broadcast of The South Florida Roundup, we revisited the stories WLRN reporters followed in 2025 on the South Florida cities that turned 100 years. It's WLRN’s fascinating series “History We Call Home: 100 Years of South Florida.” The reports take us back to the epic real estate boom of the 1920s, which spawned city charters up and down our coast. Was Al Capone a founding father of Deerfield Beach? Why did all those pink flamingos stay in Hialeah? And how did Boca Raton become a reverse, North-to-South Black migration magnet?

    55 min

  2. 12/26/2025

    Encore: An immigration mystery, bilingual odes to Miami and a post-literate world

    In a re-broadcast of The South Florida Roundup, we revisited conversations we aired last month with Miami Book Fair authors. Award-winning Miami journalist Mirta Ojito talks about her debut novel Deeper Than the Ocean — and the immigration mysteries it solves [01:09]. Honduran-American Oscar Fuentes — the Biscayne Poet — shares his odes to Miami in English and Spanish… with a little music [18:56]. And Miami Book Fair co-founder Mitchell Kaplan discusses why reading, against all odds, still has a future [36:37].

    55 min

  3. 12/19/2025

    Miami-Dade's charter schools debate, sexual violence in Haiti and interfaith efforts in the holidays

    On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked at an unusual, if not unconstitutional, move by the state to authorize charter schools in Miami-Dade County — without the authorization of Miami-Dade public schools [01:09]. We also discussed an important new Miami Herald series, “Haiti’s Lost Generation,” on the growing horror of women and girls raped by violent gangs [13:05]. And we tried to understand the uneasy place that our faiths — and our inter-faith efforts — are at in this year’s holiday season [29:58].

    55 min

  4. 12/12/2025

    Miami's new mayor, the expiration of Obamacare subsidies and holiday travel

    On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we reviewed this week’s historic Miami mayoral election — and preview its possible national repercussions after President Trump’s endorsement loses in a landslide [01:09]. We also looked at the big local repercussions of the possible expiration of Obamacare subsidies — especially in the largest enrollment group here: Latinos [20:35]. And we discussed how to navigate what’s being forecast as unprecedented holiday travel volume starting next week. [35:47].

    54 min

  5. 12/05/2025

    A South Florida congresswoman's indictment, Inter Miami in the MLS final and Haitians' loss of TPS

    On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we dissected the heads-pinning federal campaign fraud charges against Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, including that diamond ring [01:19]. We also looked at Inter Miami’s future on the eve of their Major League Soccer championship game [14:26]. And we discussed our immigration anxiety with Gepsie Metellus, who’s stepping down as the revered director of the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center —and just had a street named for her [27:58].

    42 min

  6. 11/28/2025

    Behind ‘History We Call Home: 100 Years of South Florida’

    On this special episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked at WLRN’s fascinating series “History We Call Home: 100 Years of South Florida.” The reports take us back to the epic real estate boom of the 1920s, which spawned city charters up and down our coast. The stories are captivating: Was Al Capone a founding father of Deerfield Beach? Why did all those pink flamingos stay in Hialeah? And how did Boca Raton become a reverse, North-to-South Black migration magnet?

    55 min

  7. 11/21/2025

    Miami Book Fair: an immigration mystery, bilingual odes to Miami and a post-literate world

    On this episode of The South Florida Roundup, we talked with the award-winning Miami journalist Mirta Ojito about her debut novel Deeper Than the Ocean — and the immigration mysteries it solves [01:09]. We also spoke with Oscar Fuentes — the Biscayne Poet — and got to hear his odes to Miami in English and Spanish…with a little music [18:56]. And Miami Book Fair co-founder Mitchell Kaplan discussed why reading, against all odds, still has a future [36:37].

    55 min

  8. 11/14/2025

    The Epstein files, Hialeah's youngest mayor and the anti-drug attacks in Venezuela

    On this episode of the South Florida Roundup, we looked at the new Jeffrey Epstein revelations coming out of Washington and how they’re landing in Palm Beach County, the sex-trafficking scandal’s epicenter [01:09]. We also talked to Hialeah Mayor-elect Bryan Calvo about why the current mayor seems to be making the power shift there less than amicable [19:24]. And we examined the human targets of the U.S. military’s anti-narcotics strikes in the Caribbean — and what’s next for Venezuela as a U.S. aircraft carrier arrives [36:45].

    55 min
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