Jim Ash
Jim Ash is a reporter at WFSU-FM. A Miami native, he is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience, most of it in print. He has been a member of the Florida Capital Press Corps since 1992.
Ash has worked variously as a reporter, columnist and bureau chief. His specialties include state politics, the judicial system and the environment. His career has included coverage of everything from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and Hurricane Andrew to the Florida presidential recount.
Ash is a graduate of the University of Iowa where he earned a degree in English. He spent his summers interning for newspapers, including the Austin-American Statesman in Texas.
A hiking enthusiast, Ash has explored most of the public trails in California's Big Sur. He is an avid reader who enjoys traveling, exploring the Big Bend, and water sports.
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A Miami federal judge agreed Friday to schedule a June 28 hearing to formally bless a settlement in a massive class-action lawsuit over children's... -
Governor Rick Scott signed off Thursday on a measure designed to eradicate so-called “food deserts.” -
State health officials reported three new cases of the Zika virus in Florida, one of them a pregnant woman. -
Gun rights advocates say they could gain more from a pending Florida Supreme Court case than controversial open-carry legislation that failed this year. -
After listening to tearful testimony from people for and against, a House committee voted Wednesday to ban Kratom (CRAY-tum) in Florida. -
A former Bristol woman screams for help and complains she can’t breathe in a police dash-cam recording released Wednesday. -
A Senate Panel Tuesday approved a bill allowing concealed weapon permit holders to openly carry their guns. But with a couple of powerful special... -
A divided Florida House panel voted Tuesday to allow concealed weapons permit holders to openly carry their handguns. Critics raised a host of concerns.... -
With South Florida emergency rooms overflowing and body counts rising, the only way to halt an epidemic of the designer drug Flakka is education and... -
Thirty five thousand nurses are injured every year lifting patients, and a Democratic lawmaker wants to do something about it.
