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SWFL Teen Suing Gov. Scott For Environmental Issues

WGCU | By Rachel Iacovone,
Julie Glenn, Mike Kiniry
Published May 22, 2018 at 12:31 PM EDT
Valholly Frank (far left) stands with the seven other Florida youth who filed suit against Gov. Rick Scott, the state of Florida and other state agencies last month.
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Valholly Frank (far left) stands with the seven other Florida youth who filed suit against Gov. Rick Scott, the state of Florida and other state agencies last month.

They’re not yet old enough to vote, but they want to hold the state accountable for how its treated environmental issues.

Valholly Frank is a 15-year-old who splits her time, spending weekends at the Big Cypress reservation in rural Hendry County and weekdays in Weston, Florida, where she goes to school. She’s part of the lawsuit filed last month in Leon County.

Last week, Gulf Coast Live host Julie Glenn spoke with Frank and her attorney, Guy Burns, a managing partner at Tampa-based Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns.

 

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Rachel Iacovone
RachelIacovoneis a reporter and associate producer ofGulf Coast LiveforWGCU News. Rachel came toWGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.
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Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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Mike Kiniry
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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