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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. This Florida nonprofit boss got flak for $761,000 salary. Now she’s retiring.
    Nov. 14• The Buzz
    Tiffany Carr — shown during a 2004 visit to a Hollywood nail salon, where she spoke on domestic violence — was paid $761,560 annual salary as head of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
    Former state Sen. Denise Grimsley, a friend of Carr’s, is stepping in as interim president and CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
  2. Florida Senate delays bill on parental consent for abortions
    Nov. 12• The Buzz
    Florida Senator Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, was the sponsor of a law that was to go into effect Friday that would have created new requirements for abortion doctors that could have limited the number of clinics. But the U.S. Supreme Court threw out similar Texas restrictions, raising doubt about the fate of Florida's new law. [Scott Keeler | Times]
    The delay, which kicks a vote on the bill into mid-December, could stall what may be one of state lawmakers’ most contentious decisions on a political live wire going into a presidential election...
  3. Florida plans to send troubled kids in child welfare to this location
    Nov. 7• The Buzz
    Amanda Williams Cruce and Deena Ruth Cruce currently have five foster kids in their home. Here are four on a restaurant outing.
    A plan to keep the existing funding in place could involve sending some of the state’s most troubled children from other regions, including Hillsborough County, to a facility in South Florida for more...
  4. Florida may crack down on assisted living facilities after all
    Nov. 5• The Buzz
    In this Sept. 13 photo, a woman is transported from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills as patients are evacuated after a loss of air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma in Hollywood. Nine have died and patients had to be moved out of the facility, many of them on stretchers or in wheelchairs. Authorities have launched a criminal investigation to figure out what went wrong and who, if anyone, was to blame. [Amy Beth Bennett | South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP]
    The Senate sponsor of a bill restored an original requirement that assisted living facilities report deaths or abuse in a matter of days after talking to several advocates since the bill was filed.
  5. As lawmakers weigh disability program redesign, DeSantis and Galvano provide few specifics
    Oct. 29• The Buzz
    The Florida Capitol. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
    “It’s been a tough issue fiscally, but I think it’s an issue where some of these folks are in pretty bad shape and we have a responsibility to do what we can,” DeSantis said.
  6. Abortion parental consent requirement fast-tracked in Florida House
    Oct. 22• 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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...
  9. 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,”...
  10. 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.