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Elizabeth Koh - Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Elizabeth Koh

Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau

Elizabeth Koh is a staff writer in the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times Tallahassee bureau, covering the Florida Legislature and state government. A Brown University graduate, she has also reported for the Washington Post and the Dallas Morning News' Washington, D.C. bureau.

  1. Abortion parental consent requirement fast-tracked in Florida House
    Yesterday• The Buzz
    Rep. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, speaks on the floor of the Florida House. Grall is sponsoring a bill for the second time that would require parental consent for minors to obtain an abortion.
    The legislation would enact a consent requirement for minors.
  2. Florida lawmakers may lift statute of limitations on rape cases
    Oct. 21• The Buzz
    Nearly two dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein voiced their outrage at a hearing in Manhattan on Aug. 27, 2019.
    In the wake of several nationwide cases dealing with sexual assault and abuse, advocates are pushing Florida to ease its statutes of limitations
  3. This nonprofit paid its CEO $761,000. Now it’s flouting Florida auditors.
    Oct. 17• The Buzz
    Tiffany Carr — shown during a 2004 visit to a Hollywood nail salon, where she spoke on domestic violence — did not respond this past week to requests from the Miami Herald to address her $761,560 annual salary. She is head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
    The Florida Department of Children and Families started a review of a domestic violence nonprofit’s finances last summer after it was reported that its CEO Tiffany Carr was paid $761,000. The state...
  4. Florida attorney general opens investigation into vaping companies’ marketing practices
    Oct. 16• The Buzz
    In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, file photo, a woman using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
    “We’re looking at it, we’re going to be thorough in our investigation, and we will hold accountable any companies that are intentionally targeting and misleading our youth regarding vaping products,”...
  5. Florida hires mental health coordinator to respond to hurricanes, natural disasters
    Oct. 16• The Buzz
    Hurricane Michael, which made landfall in Mexico Beach last year, left wide swaths of destruction across the Florida Panhandle.
    Darcy Abbott, a longtime official at the state Agency for Health Care Administration and Department of Health, will coordinate several agencies’ mental health responses to disasters and emergencies.
  6. Florida’s assisted living facilities write rules on reporting deaths, injuries
    Oct. 12• The Buzz
    The annual assault on Florida’s public records law begins anew today in the Legislature.
    “It’s pretty alarming what they’re doing here,” said a former Florida long-term care ombudsman who now runs an advocacy group for residents.
  7. Florida’s Medicaid program for people with disabilities facing budget cuts
    Oct. 1• The Buzz
    The Florida Capitol. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
    The recommendations include some caps on services like companion care, supported employment and adult day training.
  8. Floridians with disabilities fear possible cuts in aid
    Sep. 24• The Buzz
    (Left) Karen Clay, 64, operates a medical ventilator to help her son Michael Phillips, 36, breathe. Michael has spinal muscular atrophy and is confined to his bed. He can breathe only with the aid of a machine. Here, they are photographed at their Tampa home Wednesday, July 19, 2017. [ALESSANDRA DA PRA | Times]
    State disability administrators are developing a plan to restructure the state’s home and community-based waiver program for more than 34,000 because the Legislature says the program has spent too...
  9. Florida faces hepatitis A emergency - and there’s no end in sight
    Sep. 17• The Buzz
    The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County identified a positive case of hepatitis A in a food service worker at Hamburger Mary's in Ybor City on Oct. 22, 2018. [JOSH FIALLO | Times]
    Slightly more than 200,000 people have been vaccinated this year — a huge jump from the 49,324 people vaccinated in all of 2018.
  10. Florida eyes cutting rates or services for disabled people
    Sep. 13• The Buzz
    The Agency for Persons with Disabilities
    Potential changes could affect virtually every client that receives services through the state’s disabilities program, to save tens of millions from the agency’s bottom line.