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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Higher workers’ compensation rates in Florida are likely here to stay, warns a key player in the Florida Senate. -
A perennial battle between the business lobby and trial attorneys is heating up in the Florida Senate. -
Accurate numbers are hard to come by, but state and federal wildlife officials are raising their official estimate of the number of endangered Florida... -
Senator Anitere Flores has spoken out against hydraulic fracturing in Florida, voted against it and written guest editorials. But the Miami Republican... -
While President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions and Supreme Court pick dominate the headlines, many Floridians are focused more intently on... -
Republican Senator Dana Young of Tampa is making good on her campaign promise to file a statewide fracking ban. -
A prominent Tampa Republican is making good on her promise to seek a ban on hydraulic fracturing in Florida. -
With a series of legal challenges still hanging fire, environmental groups are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reject Florida’s... -
Senate President Joe Negron’s $2.4 billion plan to protect South Florida waterways from another toxic-algae sliming received a Luke-warm legislative... -
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Jon Steverson is insisting his department followed the book when it adopted highly...
