Robbie Gaffney
Robbie Gaffney is a recent graduate from Florida State University with degrees in Digital Media Production and Creative Writing. Before working at WFSU, they recorded FSU’s basketball and baseball games for Seminole Productions as well as interned for the PBS Station in Largo, Florida. Robbie loves playing video games such as Shadow of the Colossus, Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Their other hobbies include sleeping and watching anime.
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Police could use drones to survey crowds of 50 or more people under a bill advancing through the legislature. The measure is raising privacy concerns from a watchdog group. -
The health care industry experiences one of the highest rates of injuries caused by workplace violence, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Hurricane Michael destroyed about 2.8 million acres of trees, and the leftover debris is creating a serious threat of wildland fire to certain panhandle communities.
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Last spring, the coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the state to shut down, and teachers to move their lessons online, which Denise Wilson said was a struggle from the start for her son Brady. He is among the nearly 15% of public school students in Florida who have a disability and receive special education services.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is considering banning people from buying tegus and green iguanas to keep as pets.
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The state already has programs like Silver Alert, which cover adults who have dementia and Alzheimer’s, and the Amber Alert for children.
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Florida could soon have official state projections for how sea-level rise and flooding could impact the state’s coastline.
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Lawmakers are working to repeal a Florida law that bans same sex marriage. State courts can’t stop same sex couples from getting married due to a 2015 federal ruling. But LGBTQ advocates worry if that ruling ever gets repealed, same sex marriages in Florida won’t be protected.
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Members of a task force would recommend strategies for identifying, recording, and memorializing neglected and abandoned black cemeteries.
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