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Nate Monroe is Executive Editor of The Florida Trib. He has been a journalist in the Southeast for the past 15 years. Most recently, he wrote a column about Florida for the USA Today Network. He was previously a metro columnist, beat reporter and investigative reporter for the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, where he focused on covering the largest municipal government in Florida. Prior to arriving in Jacksonville in 2013, Nate was a reporter for newspapers in the Florida Panhandle and South Louisiana.
Nate's work has won local, state and national awards and led to federal convictions, voter-led reforms, and other significant impacts.
You can reach him at nate.monroe@floridatrib.org.
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Settlement could close the book on FPL’s past controversies
Investors argued that FPL officials made misleading statements while they were navigating a series of controversies uncovered by Florida newspapers
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Investment banks flag tension between Jacksonville aviation officials, City Council
The push and pull between the city and one of its independent authorities has raised eyebrows on Wall Street before, where political interference in nuts-and-bolts spending decisions is often frowned on.
Posted inHousing & Affordability, State Government
Resurrected lawsuit puts FPL’s past controversies back in the spotlight
The federal appeals court decision could re-open the company’s old wounds from a series of controversies across Florida.
Posted inLocal Government
Money, aerospace drive turbulence between City Councilman and aviation CEO
A Jacksonville City Council member and the CEO of the city’s four airports have butted heads for years over the aviation authority’s spending and governing powers
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Federal prosecutors subpoena first responders in controversial Duval jail death
Prosecutors began ordering witnesses to arrive at the federal courthouse downtown to give testimony in June and July.
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Feds to take lead in controversial Duval jail death investigation
The scope of the federal investigation into the death of Charles Faggart is unclear, and State Attorney Melissa Nelson did not say what conclusions her office has drawn about the case.
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show
These records cap years of issues surrounding the nuclear operations of the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light, most of which have been disclosed in highly technical reports that have escaped public notice.
Posted inFlorida News Articles & Reporting
Jacksonville firm with $78 million ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ contract has obscure origins
Information about Critical Response Strategies LLC – including who runs it – has been scrubbed from its website in recent months.
Posted inJail Conditions
Autopsy into controversial jail death complete, but findings a mystery
That report’s findings about what ultimately caused Faggart’s controversial death will prove consequential, so the report’s completion is a significant step.