Steve Newborn
Steve Newborn is WUSF's assistant news director as well as a reporter and producer at WUSF covering environmental issues and politics in the Tampa Bay area.
He’s been with WUSF since 2001, and has covered events such as President George W. Bush’s speech in Sarasota as the Sept. 11 attacks unfolded; the ongoing drama over whether the feeding tube should be removed from Terri Schiavo; the arrest and terrorism trial of USF professor Sami Al-Arian; how the BP Deepwater Horizon spill affected Florida; and he followed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition through the state - twice.
Before joining WUSF, he covered environmental and Polk County news for the Tampa Tribune and worked for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center during the early days of the space shuttle.
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Lawmakers also doubled to $100 million funding for Florida Forever, which preserves environmentally sensitive lands. They agreed to put $300 million from federal stimulus funding toward land conservation. -
A new bill signed this week by Gov. DeSantis that toughens penalties for people found to be violating laws at protest rallies is troubling some march organizers. -
Additional pumps should double the amount of water that can be taken from of the retention pond. U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan said the problems at the processing plant are "something that's been going on for too long." -
A state of emergency was declared and hundreds of homeowners were told to evacuate as a pond full of wastewater from a former phosphate mine is at risk of collapse south of Tampa.
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The National Guard dropped off pumps in an attempt to drain the reservoir before the hole in the earthen dam becomes larger. -
Workers at the closed Piney Point phosphate processing plant in Manatee County continue to take emergency measures to reduce the amount of water inside a giant gypsum stack used to hold byproducts of the production of fertilizer. -
The leak could signal a repeat of a breach in the gypstack retention pond that killed untold numbers of fish and marine life a decade ago. -
A group of climate change bills championed by Florida House Speaker Chris Sprowls could be helped by new federal stimulus money. -
A recent study shows Florida has the second-highest number of known hate groups in the country. We put a spotlight on why the Sunshine State harbors so much hate. -
Tampa Police Officer Jesse Madsen veered into the path of Joshua Daniel Montague, who was going the wrong way on Interstate 275 and was apparently intoxicated at the time of the crash.
